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Sensors

Multiple neuroengineering challenges exist today in creating practical, chronic, multichannel neural recording systems for research and for human clinical neural interface application. Specifically:

  • persistent wired connections between user and recording system limit the mobility of both
  • the transfer of high bandwidth signals to external (even distant) electronics normally requires premature data reduction (i.e, data loss, making potentially helpful signals unavailable for subsequent analysis or use)
  • risk of infection due to a percutaneous connector component

Our group is developing an approach to overcome these limitations via an entirely implantable, wirelessly powered and communicating, integrated neural recording microsystem.

Research supported by:

Rehabilitation R&D Service, Department of Veterans Affairs logo National Institutes of Health logo National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering logo The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development logo National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders logo National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke logo National Science Foundation logo Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency logo
Katie Samson Foundation logo Doris Duke Charitable Foundation logo MGH-Deane Institute for Integrated Research on Atrial Fibrillation and Stroke logo
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