Title
In-Vitro Demonstration of Ultra-Reliable, Wireless and Batteryless Implanted Intracranial Sensors Operated on Loci of Exceptional Points
Abstract
Vital signal monitoring, such as pulse, respiration rate, intra-organ and intra-vascular pressure, can provide important information for determination of clinic diagnosis, treatments, and surgical protocols. Nowadays, micromachined bioimplants, equipped with antennas for converting bio-signals to modulated radio transmissions, may allow remote continuous monitoring of patients’ vital signs. Yet, current passive biotelemetry techniques usually suffer from poor signal reproducibility and robustness in light of inevitable misalignment between transmitting and receiving antennas. Here, we seek to address this long-existing challenge and to robustly acquire information from a passive wireless intracranial pressure (or brain pressure) sensor by introducing a novel, high-performance biotelemetry system. In spite of variable inductive links, this biotelemetry system may have absolute accuracy by leveraging the uniqueness of loci of exceptional points (EPs) in non-Hermitian radio-frequency (RF) electronic systems with parity-time ( <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">PT</i> ) symmetry. Our in-vitro experimental demonstration shows that the proposed intracranial (ICP) monitoring system can provide a sub-mmHg resolution in the ICP range of 0-20 mmHg and ultra-robust wireless data acquisition against the misalignment-induced weakening of inductive link. Our results could provide a practical pathway toward reliable, real-time wireless monitoring of ICP, and other vital signals generated by bio-implants and wearables.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TBCAS.2022.3164697
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Humans,Intracranial Pressure,Monitoring, Physiologic,Prostheses and Implants,Reproducibility of Results,Vital Signs,Wireless Technology
Journal
16
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
1932-4545
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Minye Yang100.34
Zhilu Ye200.34
Nabeel Alsaab300.34
Mohamed Farhat400.34
P.-Y. Chen533.42