WIRELESS BATTERYLESS BLOOD PRESSURE SENSING MICROSYSTEM

Cardiovascular diseases are the number one cause of
death and disability in the United States and most
European countries. Real-time chronic blood pressure
information of genetically engineered mice can help
scientists understand the diseases and to develop
new drugs and treatments for the diseases. However,
there is no adequate solution for chronic blood
pressure monitoring to date due to small laboratory
mouse size and their small blood vessel dimension.
By merging MEMS technology and low-power CMOS
integrated circuits design through a high level
system integration together with a conventional
molding-based packaging technique, miniature, light-
weight, wireless, batteryless, less-invasive, and
implantable blood pressure sensing microsystems have
been demonstrated for untethered small laboratory
animals real-time monitoring. The microsystems
designed for laboratory rats and mice monitoring
presented in this book exhibit a weight of 430mg and
130mg, respectively. Untethered laboratory animals
implant study demonstrates the microsystem
capability of capturing real-time high-fidelity
blood pressure information under a wireless and
batteryless condition.

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Peng Cong received his Ph.D. degree in the EECS Department at Case Western Reserve University in 2009. His research focuses on sensors, mixed-signal integrated-circuit design, and microsystem integration for biomedical and harsh environmental applications. Dr. Cong is now working at Medtronic Inc. for the next generationimplantable devices.

Klappentext

Cardiovascular diseases are the number one cause of death and disability in the United States and most European countries. Real-time chronic blood pressure information of genetically engineered mice can help scientists understand the diseases and to develop new drugs and treatments for the diseases. However, there is no adequate solution for chronic blood pressure monitoring to date due to small laboratory mouse size and their small blood vessel dimension. By merging MEMS technology and low-power CMOS integrated circuits design through a high level system integration together with a conventional molding-based packaging technique, miniature, light-weight, wireless, batteryless, less-invasive, and implantable blood pressure sensing microsystems have been demonstrated for untethered small laboratory animals real-time monitoring. The microsystems designed for laboratory rats and mice monitoring presented in this book exhibit a weight of 430mg and 130mg, respectively. Untethered laboratory animals implant study demonstrates the microsystem capability of capturing real-time high-fidelity blood pressure information under a wireless and batteryless condition.