RSS-243 — Active Medical Implants Operating in the 402-405 MHz Band

Issue 2
November 2005

Spectrum Management and Telecommunications

Radio Standards Specification

Preface

Radio Standards Specification 243, Issue 2, Active Medical Implants Operating in the 402-405 MHz Band, sets out the minimum certification requirements for devices using new and emerging technologies for medical applications including:

• external transceivers (programmers/controls) that incorporate frequency agile interference avoidance systems and transceivers internal to the human body (active medical implants) that radiate radio frequency energy from within the human body; and
• external receivers that rely on single-frequency, low duty cycle, redundant-code repetitive-transmission interference avoidance systems and transmitters internal to the human body (active medical implants) that radiate radio frequency energy from within the human body.

RSS-243, Issue 2, must be used in conjunction with RSS-Gen, General Requirements and Information for the Certification of Radiocommunication Equipment, for general specifications and information relevant to the equipment for which this Standard applies.

This document will be in force as of the publication date of Canada Gazette notice SMSE-012-05, after which the public has 90 days to make comments. Comments received will be taken into account and a new issue, or a revised version of this issue may be developed.

Issued under the authority of
the Minister of Industry

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R.W. McCaughern
Director General
Spectrum Engineering

Table of Contents

1. Scope
2. General Information
   • 2.1 Licensing Requirements
   • 2.2 Related Documents
   • 2.3 Definitions
3. Measurement Methods
   • 3.1 General Information
   • 3.2 Occupied Bandwidth
   • 3.3 Frequency Stability
   • 3.4 Transmitter Unwanted Emissions
   • 3.5 Receiver Spurious Emissions
   • 3.6 Monitoring System Measurements
4. User Manual
5. Transmitter and Receiver Standard Specifications
   • 5.1 Channelling Arrangement
   • 5.2 Types of Modulation
   • 5.3 Frequency Stability
   • 5.4 Transmitter Output Power
   • 5.5 Transmitter Unwanted Emissions
   • 5.6 Receiver Spurious Emissions
   • 5.7 Monitoring System Specifications for MICSs
   • 5.8 Other MITS Specifications

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