Advanced Materials Research Vol. 680

Abstract: Skin electrode unit is the channel through which energy can be transferred to the implanted device by volume conduction. The unit can be equivalent to lumped circuit, but so far there are no appropriate calculation methods of these circuit parameters. In this paper, the field- circuit coupling model of skin electrode unit is established to compute the voltages and currents at electrode ports, then their amplitudes and phases are extracted by using all phase FFT spectrum analysis, at last the equivalent impedance parameters of the skin electrode unit are calculated by the application of variable load method. These impedance parameters can be used for optimizing the volume conduction energy delivery system.