[Medical nanodevices].
Development of implantable medical nanodevices enables us continuous automatic treatment of patients from inside of their body. Bionic devices, interfacing with neural systems and substituting native functions, such as bionic pacemaker, bionic pressure controller are candidates to miniaturize. For such miniaturization, efforts to reduce size of power supply (e.g., biological fuel cell) and to establish reliable high-throughput, low power telecommunication (e.g., spread spectrum telecommunication) are required. Simple devices such as pacemakers would benefit from miniaturization by lowering invasion and by developing a new usage such as ventricular resynchronization.
Sugimachi
Masaru
M
Department of Cardiovascular Dynamics, National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute.
Sunagawa
Kenji
K
D000818:Animals; D008904:Miniaturization; D036103:Nanotechnology; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D011817:Rabbits; D051381:Rats