Interfacing Bioelectronics and Biomedical Sensing

This book addresses the fundamental challenges underlying bioelectronics and tissue interface for clinical investigation. Appropriate for biomedical engineers and researchers, the authors cover topics ranging from retinal implants to restore vision, implantable circuits for neural implants, and intravascular electrochemical impedance to detect unstable plaques. In addition to these chapters, the authors also document the approaches and issues of multi-scale physiological assessment and monitoring in both humans and animal models for health monitoring and biological investigations; novel biomaterials such as conductive and biodegradable polymers to be used in biomedical devices; and the optimization of wireless power transfer via inductive coupling for batteryless and wireless implantable medical devices. In addition to engineers and researchers, this book is also an ideal supplementary or reference book for a number of courses in biomedical engineering programs, such as bioinstrumentation, MEMS/BioMEMS, bioelectronics and sensors, and more.

Chapter 1. Challenges in the Design of Large-Scale, High-Density, Wireless Stimulation and Recording Interface.- Chapter 2. Advances in Bioresorbable Electronics and Uses in Biomedical Sensing.- Chapter 3. Inorganic Dissolvable Bioelectronics.- Chapter 4. Wirelessly Powered Medical Implants Via Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Radiation.- Chapter 5. Electrocardiogram: Acquisition and Analysis for Biological Investigations and Health Monitoring.- Chapter 6. Flexible Intravascular EIS Sensors for Detecting Metabolically Active Plaque.- Chapter 7. Epidermal EIT Electrode Arrays for Detecting Fatty Liver Infiltration.- Chapter 8. High-Frequency Ultrasonic Transducers to Uncover Cardiac Dynamics.- Chapter 9. Minimally Invasive Technologies for Biosensing.