Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference (대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집)

The Korean Society of Medical and Biological Engineering (대한의용생체공학회)
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Development of a Transcutaneous Information Transmission System using Transmitted Light for the Total Artificial Heart

투과광을 이용한 인공심장용 무선정보전달 장치의 개발

  • Kang, Dong-Woo (Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine Seoul National University) ;
  • Kim, Hee-Chan (Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine Seoul National University) ;
  • Min, Byoung-Goo (Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine Seoul National University)
  • Published : 1993.05.14
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Abstract

A transcutaneoos information transmission system using transmitted infrared light for an implantable total artificial heart(TAH) an developed and the performance of the system was tested. In an in vitro test, transmittance of the developed system was measured through various thicknesses of pig shins. In an in vivo test, a loopback test using a personal computer was performed to determine the error rate and an experiment using a mock system was taken. In this experiment, within acceptable lateral and vertical displacements, the error rate of at least 3.8E-6 was guaranteed. Monitoring signals from the internal controller(Intel 87C196) of the mock system were successfully transmitted to the external controller(IBM PC) and the operating commands from the external controller were successfully conducted by the mock system. Communication was done in half duplex mode according to RS-232 protocol at the speed of 4800 bps.

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