Implantable Wireless Intracranial Pressure Monitoring Based on Air Pressure Sensing

IEEE Trans Biomed Circuits Syst. 2018 Oct;12(5):1076-1087. doi: 10.1109/TBCAS.2018.2845462. Epub 2018 Jul 16.

Abstract

A wireless intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring system based on the air pressure sensing is proposed in this work. The proposed system is composed of an implantable ICP sensing device and a portable wireless data recorder. The ICP sensing device consists of an air pressure sensor, an ultra-thin air pouch for pressure sensing, and a low-power dedicated system-on-a-chip (SoC) for the data acquisition control and wireless transmission. The SoC consists of a power management unit, a wake-up controller, the sensor interface, a wireless transmitter, and the workflow control logic. The SoC is fabricated in 0.18 μm CMOS technology with a die area of 3.04 mm × 2 mm. Experimental results show that the prototype implantable ICP device has achieved a resolution of 0.2 mmHg and a battery lifetime of 1 week with a 3 V 50 mAh battery. The ICP device has been tested in the liquid environment. The nonlinearity error is less than ±0.4 mmHg for the full measurement range of -20 to +150 mmHg. Compared to the other implantable wireless ICP solutions in the literature, the proposed system alleviates the biocompatibility issue and increases the measurement accuracy.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Animals
  • Intracranial Pressure / physiology*
  • Monitoring, Physiologic / instrumentation
  • Monitoring, Physiologic / methods*
  • Prostheses and Implants
  • Swine
  • Transistors, Electronic
  • Wireless Technology