New Approaches for Wireless Implantable Biomedical Devices

未来的无线生物医学植入物将与生物系统对接，以执行诸如视力恢复、瘫痪肢体的复苏和化学传感等生理任务。对社会的潜在好处将不仅来自于减轻人类痛苦和提高生活质量，还将来自于降低目前用于帮助失明、中风和脊髓损伤幸存者等残疾人的医疗保健成本。使用类似的技术，人工耳蜗已经恢复了世界各地10万多名聋人的功能性听力。该项目的成果还可应用于各种其他应用，如环境监测、安全和身份识别系统。

Wireless biomedical implants of the future will interface with biological systems to perform physiological tasks such as vision restoration, reanimation of paralyzed limbs, and chemical sensing. The potential benefit to society will come not only from alleviating human suffering and improving quality of life, but also by reducing the health care costs now directed to assist people with disabilities such as blindness, stroke and spinal-cord injury survivors. Using similar technologies, cochlear implants have already restored functional hearing to over 100,000 deaf patients around the world. The outcomes of the project can also be applied to a variety of other applications such environmental monitoring, security and identification systems.