Implantable microsystems for monitoring and neural rehabilitation, Part II.
Miniaturised implantable biomedical microsystems are opening up completely new markets for diagnosis and therapy products. Part II of this article discusses recent work on distributed intelligent implants and biohybrid systems, which combine microsystems with cells and tissues.
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Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Biohybrid Systems Department, Neural Prosthetics Unit, Ensheimer Strasse 48, D-66386 St. Ingbert, Germany. thomas.stieglitz@ibmt.fhg.de, www.ibmt.fhg.de
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