I-Corps: Roadmap to Commercialization for Electric Field Encephalography

I-Corps团队正在开发一种用于脑信号监测的电场测量技术。这项技术是一种测量和分析大脑因内在活动或外部刺激而产生的电场的系统。它由一个高密度传感器阵列系统组成，伴随着电子学和信号处理算法。通过这项技术使用的这项技术比目前的模式有几个优点，脑电图法(测量头皮上的电位)和磁脑图法(测量磁场)。该技术具有较高的空间分辨率，不受杂散磁场的影响，不需要低温设备，提高了震源重建的精度。通过该项目开发的技术有可能为了解大脑活动和获得各种神经疾病的线索提供新的信息。通过该项目开发的技术是一种新的脑信号测量系统，适用于研究人员和临床医生，具有成本效益和完全便携/移动的特点。以高空间分辨率和用户友好的方式测量生物电脑信号的能力可能会带来新的民用和军事应用。这项技术的一些直接影响领域可能包括：以高时间和空间分辨率进行的脑功能成像、模式识别、认知；洞察视觉和语言的神经关联；同样，睡眠、癫痫和心理健康的研究和应用；创伤脑损伤的军事应用；战斗员工作表现的评估和提高；以及人机界面和脑机界面。

The I-Corps team is developing an electric field measurement technology for brain signal monitoring. This technology is a system of measuring and analyzing the electric fields generated by the brain arising from intrinsic activity or external stimuli. It is comprised of a system of high density array of sensors, accompanied by electronics and signal processing algorithms. This technique used through this technology has several advantages over current modalities, Electroencephalography (measuring the electric potential on the scalp) and Magneto-encephalography (measuring the magnetic field). This technology has higher spatial resolution, is unaffected by stray magnetic fields, does not cryogenic equipment and improves source reconstruction precision. Technologies developed through this project have the potential to provide new information for understanding brain activity and obtaining clues to a variety of neurological disorders.The technology developed through this project is a new brain signal measurement system for researchers and clinicians, which would be cost-effective and fully portable/mobile. The ability to measure bioelectric brain signals at high spatial resolution and in a user-friendly manner may lead to new civilian and military applications. Some of the immediate areas of impact of this technology could include: Functional brain imaging at high temporal and spatial resolution, pattern recognition, cognition; insights into neural correlates of vision and speech; again, sleep, epilepsy and mental health research and applications; military applications of traumatic brain injury, war-fighter performance assessment and enhancement and; human-machine and brain-computer interfaces.