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Two Primary Methods for Measuring Heart Rate
Overview of heart rate monitoring techniques for wearables, comparing optical PPG/pulse oximetry and bioelectric ECG approaches, with AFE design and power considerations.
Choosing Wireless Standards for Telemedicine Use Cases
Telemedicine wireless interoperability overview with practical guidelines for choosing wireless standards (Bluetooth, ZigBee, PAN/WAN, IP) for medical devices.
Applications and Principles of Laser in Ophthalmology
Overview of laser ophthalmology: wavelength-dependent tissue absorption and mechanisms—photothermal, photochemical and photomechanical effects in ocular therapy.
Wireless Technologies in Common Medical Electronics
Technical overview of wireless technologies for medical devices and telemedicine, highlighting Bluetooth and ZigBee use in monitoring, plus RFID, IEEE 802.11 and LTE.
External Wireless Power for Implantable Medical Devices
MIT and Brigham research presents IVN: a radio-wave wireless power and communication system for battery-free implantable devices enabling drug delivery and sensing.
Mobile Health in Clinical Closed-Loop Management
Mobile nursing and closed-loop management in hospital IT: bedside PDA barcode verification and EMR-level workflows to improve patient safety and care quality.
Infrared in Medical Applications
Technical overview of infrared discovery, mechanisms, biological effects, safety, and clinical applications, emphasizing tissue heating, resonance and microcirculation.
Simplifying Portable Medical Device Design with Analog ICs
Describes single-chip portable medical devices using an ultra-low-power MCU with integrated analog front end: op amps, 12-bit ADC/DAC, DAC-based AGC and low-power design.
MATLAB, Signal Processing and ML Advances in Healthcare
Technical overview of machine learning for physiological signal analysis, covering preprocessing, feature engineering, ECG classification workflow, and regulatory context.
China's Medical Electronics Market and Semiconductor Industry
Analysis of China's portable medical electronics market size, growth outlook and implications for the semiconductor industry, focusing on wearables, low-power ICs and integration.
Secondary DC/DC Isolation in Medical Power Supplies
Patient-contact power systems: IEC 60601-1 compliance, BF/CF protection classes, leakage current limits, and DC/DC isolation strategies for medical device power design.
Design and Testing of a Wearable Wireless ECG Recorder
Design and test of a low-power wearable wireless ECG recorder using ADS1191, with Bluetooth streaming, wireless charging, and validated input impedance, CMRR, frequency response.
Heart Disease Dataset Analysis with Python
Exploratory analysis of a heart disease dataset: data loading, demographic distributions, age/heart-rate/blood-pressure plots and correlation matrix showing feature associations.
Rapid Design of an Infrared Body Temperature Detector
Design guide for battery-powered infrared thermometer systems using MSP430 microcontrollers, low-noise analog rails, precision amplifiers, and power-management components.
Implantable Cardiac Pacemakers: Applications and Principles
Overview of implantable pacemaker design, pacing leads and pulse-generator components, NASPE/BPEG coding, clinical indications, and trends in pacing circuitry and telemetry.
Hexiwear-Based Wearable Medical Instrument Design
Technical overview of the Hexiwear wearable platform: Kinetis K64F MCU, BLE, sensors and sensor-fusion techniques, hardware expansion (MikroBus) and development toolchain.
Fixing ECG Device Crashes During ESD Testing
ECG device ESD analysis and mitigation: use low-impedance earth return and port-ground isolation to divert common-mode currents and prevent crashes/resets.
Laparoscopy in Gynecologic Diagnosis and Treatment
Review of laparoscopy in gynecology: history, surgical applications, advantages, limitations and technical considerations for laparoscopic procedures and training.
Recording Compound Action Potentials from Nerve Trunks
Protocol for recording compound action potentials from amphibian sciatic nerves using ZL-620U, measuring waveform parameters and calculating nerve conduction velocity.
Design, Simulation and Compliance for Medical Devices
Overview of MATLAB and Simulink workflows for medical device development, biomedical data analysis, and FDA software tool confirmation and validation.