Wireless energy transfer platform for medical sensors and implantable devices.
Witricity is a newly developed technique for wireless energy transfer. This paper presents a frequency adjustable witricity system to power medical sensors and implantable devices. New witricity resonators are designed for both energy transmission and reception. A prototype platform is described, including an RF power source, two resonators with new structures, and inductively coupled input and output stages. In vitro experiments, both in open air and using a human head phantom consisting of simulated tissues, are employed to verify the feasibility of this platform. An animal model is utilized to evaluate in vivo energy transfer within the body of a laboratory pig. Our experiments indicate that witricity is an effective new tool for providing a variety of medical sensors and devices with power.
Zhang
Fei
F
Department of Neurosurgery, Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
Hackworth
Steven A
SA
Liu
Xiaoyu
X
Chen
Haiyan
H
Sclabassi
Robert J
RJ
Sun
Mingui
M
D000818:Animals; D015374:Biosensing Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011211:Electric Power Supplies; D004735:Energy Transfer; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D008280:Magnetics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation*; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013552:Swine; D013686:Telemetry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014159:Transducers