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Wireless Pacing Using an Asynchronous Three-Tiered Inductive Power Transfer System

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Despite numerous advancements in pacemaker technology for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias and conduction disorders, lead-related complications associated with these devices continue to compromise patient safety and survival. In this work, we present a system architecture that has the capacity to deliver power to a wireless, batteryless intravascular pacer. This was made possible through a three-tiered, dual-sub-system, four-coil design, which operates on two different frequencies through intermittent remote-controlled inductive power transfer. System efficiency was enhanced using coil design optimization, and validated using numerical simulations and experimental analysis. Our pacemaker design was concepted to achieve inductive power transfer over a 55 mm range to a microscale pacer with a 3 mm diameter. Thus, the proposed system design enabled long-range wireless power transfer to a small implanted pacer with the capacity for intravascular deployment to the anterior cardiac vein. This proposed stent-like fixation mechanism can bypass the multitude of complications associated with pacemaker wires while wireless power can eliminate the need for repeated procedures for battery replacement.

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Acknowledgments

This study was supported by the National Institutes of Health HL118650 (T.K. Hsiai), HL129727 (T.K. Hsiai), HL111437 (T.K. Hsiai), BX004356 (T.K. Hsiai), EB0220002 (T.K. Hsiai), GM008042 (P. Abiri), and UCLA David Geffen Scholarship (P. Abiri).

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  1. Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA

    Parinaz Abiri, Chih-Chiang Chang, Mehrdad Roustaei, Hamed Bourenane & Tzung K. Hsiai

  2. Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA

    Parinaz Abiri, Varun Gudapati & Tzung K. Hsiai

  3. Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA

    Arash Abiri

  4. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA

    Usama Anwar & Dejan Markovic

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Abiri, P., Abiri, A., Gudapati, V. et al. Wireless Pacing Using an Asynchronous Three-Tiered Inductive Power Transfer System. Ann Biomed Eng 48, 1368–1381 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-020-02450-y

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