Cardiac Electrical Activity Mapping Implant
A team of cardiologists, materials scientists, and bioengineersrecently created a new type of implantable device for measuring the heart's electrical output. This is said to to be a far and above advancement from the current technology we have today involving the reading of electrical current in the heart.
The new device is the first of its kind to use flexible silicon technology in a medical application. Co-Senior author, Brian Litt, says about the new material, " we believe that this technology may herald a new generation of active, flexible implantable devices for applications in many areas of the body." Other hopes for furthering application of this material is in treaing epileptic seizures and mapping electrical waves through the brain. This neurological application is on the horizon of develping medicine and is very promising.
This article is very interesting to me because I want to go into medical device production and research and this device development, along with the flexible silicon material, is on the leading edge of research in their respective field. Also, I found this article quite interesting because they said that the silicon material would be able to be used in the mapping and treatment of epileptic seizures which is something that as been only monitored from the outside as of yet and to see this development is very promising.
Source:
http://insciences.org/article.php?article_id=8611
The new device is the first of its kind to use flexible silicon technology in a medical application. Co-Senior author, Brian Litt, says about the new material, " we believe that this technology may herald a new generation of active, flexible implantable devices for applications in many areas of the body." Other hopes for furthering application of this material is in treaing epileptic seizures and mapping electrical waves through the brain. This neurological application is on the horizon of develping medicine and is very promising.
This article is very interesting to me because I want to go into medical device production and research and this device development, along with the flexible silicon material, is on the leading edge of research in their respective field. Also, I found this article quite interesting because they said that the silicon material would be able to be used in the mapping and treatment of epileptic seizures which is something that as been only monitored from the outside as of yet and to see this development is very promising.
Source:
http://insciences.org/article.php?article_id=8611
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