A Review of Medical Implants Communication in Body Area Network

An overview of medical implant communication in body area network is presented keeping in mind the readers from both engineering and medical science background. Starting from the very basic body area network topology, the paper shows the general architecture for the design of implantable transceiver Integrated Circuit (IC). Most of the work is focused on the Medical Implant Communication Service (MICS) band from 402 to 405 MHz. We have also presented a recent energy harvesting technique for battery-less implantable IC and test method for the implants operating in MICS band. Mostly the review is done based on IEEE 802.15.6, ETSI EN 301 839-1, and ITU-R Recommendation RS 1346 standards.