Publication Date:
1980-10-17
Description:
Innovative applications of microelectronics in new biomedical implantable instruments offer a singular opportunity for advances in medical research and practice because of two salient factors: (i) beyond all other types of biomedical instruments, implants exploit fully the inherent technical advantages--complex functional capability, high reliability, lower power drain, small size and weight-of microelectronics, and (ii) implants bring microelectronics into intimate association with biological systems. The combination of these two factors enables otherwise impossible new experiments to be conducted and new paostheses developed that will improve the quality of human life.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Meindl, J D -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1980 Oct 17;210(4467):263-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7423185" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Blood Flow Velocity
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Humans
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Microcomputers
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Monitoring, Physiologic/*instrumentation
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Pacemaker, Artificial/instrumentation
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Prostheses and Implants/*instrumentation
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Rheology
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Telemetry/instrumentation
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
