Medical in-body antennas
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Zarlink Semiconductor, an Ottawa chip company, is taking part in an EU project aiming at developping in-body antenna chips for medical devices such as pacemakers and hearing aids. Today, a patient would most likely need surgery to remove a problematic pacemaker, and then have an adjusted device implanted, but the new system would allow doctors to monitor and fix the devices wirelessly from up to three metres away. Details in USA Today. |
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Zarlink Semiconductor is working under the EU to develop antennas for implants. This is big news for anyone with a pacemaker since currently patients with problematic implants need to go under the knife in order to fix their medical gadgets.... Read More
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