Access Control for Implantable Medical Devices

A Secure Proxy-based Access Control Scheme for Implantable Medical Devices

With the rapid development of health equipments, increasingly more patients have installed the implantable medical devices (IMD) in their bodies for diagnostic, monitoring, and therapeutic purposes. IMDs are extremely limited in computation power and battery capacity. Meanwhile, IMDs have to communicate with an external programmer device (i.e., IMD programmer) through the wireless channel, whic...

Implantable Medical Devices

Abbreviations MEMS Microelectromechanical systems NEMS Nano-electromechanical systems PCL Polycaprolactone PET Polyethylene terephthalate PGA Polyglycolic acid PLA Polylactic acid PU Polyurethane PTFE Poly(tetrafl uoroethylene) PMMA Polymethylmethacrylate UHMWPE Ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene

Power Approaches for Implantable Medical Devices

Implantable medical devices have been implemented to provide treatment and to assess in vivo physiological information in humans as well as animal models for medical diagnosis and prognosis, therapeutic applications and biological science studies. The advances of micro/nanotechnology dovetailed with novel biomaterials have further enhanced biocompatibility, sensitivity, longevity and reliabilit...

Integrated Circuits for Implantable Medical Devices

Authors James McDonald: Co-founder and president of Cactus Semiconductor, a fabless semiconductor firm that specializes in custom medical integrated circuits including ASICs used in implantable applications Steven Dean: Global medical market lead for Freescale David Niewolny: Medical segment manager with Freescale’s Microcontroller Solutions Group Donnie Garcia: Systems engineer with Freescale’...

Applying Totally Implantable Venous Access Devices (TIVAD) in Children: the First Iranian Experience