B1.2 - HYPER-IMS: A Fully Implantable Blood Pressure Sensor for Hypertensive Patients

Event
SENSOR+TEST Conferences 2009
2009-05-26 - 2009-05-28
Congress Center Nürnberg
Band
Proceedings SENSOR 2009, Volume I
Chapter
B1 - Medical Application I
Author(s)
M. Graefe, T. Goettsche, P. Osypka - Dr. Osypka GmbH Medizintechnik, Rheinfelden, Germany, M. Goertz, K. Trieu - Fraunhofer Institute für Mikroelektronische Schaltungen und Systeme, Duisburg, Germany, H. Fassbender, W. Mokwa, U. Urban, T. Schmitz-Rode - RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, T. Hilbel, R. Becker - Krehl-Klinik, Heidelberg, Germany, B. Bender, W. Coenen - Bytec Medizintechnik GmbH, Stolberg, Germany, M. Faehnle, R. Glocker - MHM Harzbecher Medizintechnik GmbH, Aschaffenburg, Germany
Pages
145 - 149
DOI
10.5162/sensor09/v1/b1.2
ISBN
978-3-9810993-4-8
Price
free

Abstract

Hypertension and heart failures were and are increasingly two of the main diseases of modern population. As a powerful tool for long-term post surgical evaluation of heart pressure, body temperature and pulse rate, a telemetric controlled sensor-implant without battery is currently developed and evaluated in the course of preclinical in-vivo experiments.

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