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In the 1950s ultrasound started to be used for biomedical imaging and for therapy purposes and a study published in 2001 has shown the ability of acoustic waves to energize and transmit information within the human body. To this end new implanted medical devices (IMDs) are appearing among health monitoring applications which exploit the capability of acoustic waves to penetrate deeper in the body tissue without being significantly attenuated, and inherently to avoid interference with other medical systems.
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Mazzilli, F., Dehollain, C. (2020). Introduction. In: Ultrasound Energy and Data Transfer for Medical Implants. Analog Circuits and Signal Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49004-1_1
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