ACTIVE SKIN ELECTRICAL SENSOR

随着计算资源变得越来越便宜， 医疗技术的发展将受到能力的限制， 将新的成像方法与人体生理学结合起来。 我们有 经过验证的干式电容耦合皮肤传感器技术， 评估大脑的电活动， 头皮 当与Geodesic Sensor Net集成时， 产生了很好的脑电图记录 在第二阶段研究的第一年， 我们将根据第一阶段的结果实现128通道EEG系统， 包括分立元件有源传感器、注模传感器 传感器网络张力结构和软件， 硬件控制与EGI的数字EEG系统集成。 这 系统将开始立即在研究和临床EEG中进行测试 laboratories. 在第二年，第二代系统将实施 一种提供动态阻抗的微加工（芯片）设计- 匹配，电流注入（用于扫描阻抗断层扫描），以及 集成电源、EEG和数字配置的电路 控制在一根电线上。 测量大脑活动的能力 快速、方便、廉价地使用这项新技术， 在研究中彻底改变脑电活动的研究， 临床实践 建议的商业应用 传统EEG的空间采样不足正变得越来越重要。 越来越清晰。 密集阵列EEG受电极应用的限制 方法.再加上分析软件的新进展， 系统可以将强大的新分析工具放在临床医生手中， 脑电图学家

As computational resources become increasingly affordable, improvements in health care technology will become limited by the capacity to interface new imaging methodologies with human physiology. We have proven the technology for a dry, capacitance-coupled, skin sensor that assesses the electrical activity of the brain when it is placed against the scalp. When integrated with the Geodesic Sensor Net, the dry sensor yields excellent EEG recordings. In year 1 of the Phase II research, we will implement a 128 channel EEG system based on the Phase I results, including discrete-component active sensors, injection-molded sensor pedestals, the Geodesic Sensor Net tension structure, and software and hardware controls to integrate with EGI's digitial EEG system. This system will begin immediate testing in research and clinical EEG laboratories. In year 2, the second-generation system will implement a microfabricated (chip) design that provides dynamic impedance- matching, current injection (for scanning impedance tomography), and circuitry for integration of power, EEG, and digital configuration controls on a single wire. The ability to measure brain activity quickly, easily and inexpensively with this new technology will revolutionize the study of brain electrical activity in research and clinical practice. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION The inadequate spatial sampling of conventional EEG is becoming increasingly clear. Dense array EEG is limited by electrode application methods. Coupled by new advances in analytic software, the active sensor system could place powerful new analytic tools in the hands of clinical electroencephalographers.