Microwire Arrays for Multichannel Neurophysiology

描述（由申请人提供）：在第一阶段，我们将确定用于慢性多通道神经生理学的商业制造微线阵列的可行性。我们的主要目标是将这项已经成熟的技术商业化，为微线阵列提供廉价、统一和可靠的来源。我们寻求开发一种自动化阵列制造工艺，允许定制电极长度，通道数和阵列架构。商业来源将使研究人员从构建自己的阵列的时间和劳动密集型任务中解脱出来。它还将允许目前无法建造或购买阵列的实验室进行慢性多通道记录。这是一项研究感觉和运动地图、功能连接、慢性神经植入和神经假体的技术。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In Phase I we will determine the feasibility of commercially manufacturing microwire arrays for chronic multichannel neurophysiology. Our main goal is to commercialize this already mature technology, providing an inexpensive, uniform, and reliable source for microwire arrays. We seek to develop an automated array fabrication process that allows customization of electrode lengths, channel count, and array architecture. A commercial source would free investigators from the time and labor intensive task of building their own arrays. It would also permit laboratories currently unable to build or buy arrays to perform chronic multichannel recording. This is an enabling technology for research on sensory and motor maps, functional connectivity, chronic neural implants, and neural prostheses.