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Stanford Report, September 4, 2012

Stanford researchers create tiny, wirelessly powered cardiac device

Stanford electrical engineers overturn existing models to demonstrate the feasibility of a millimeter-sized, wirelessly powered cardiac device. The findings, say the researchers, could dramatically alter the scale of medical devices implanted in the human body.

BY ANDREW MYERS

Ada Poon, assistant professor of electrical engineering, led the research.

W irelessly powered cardiac device may change heart treatment