{"id":107394,"date":"2020-05-21T04:43:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T11:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/modified-tattoo-electrodes-can-be-used-to-measure-brain-activity"},"modified":"2020-05-21T04:43:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T11:43:12","slug":"modified-tattoo-electrodes-can-be-used-to-measure-brain-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/modified-tattoo-electrodes-can-be-used-to-measure-brain-activity","title":{"rendered":"Modified tattoo electrodes can be used to measure brain activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/modified-tattoo-electrodes-can-be-used-to-measure-brain-activity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2015 Francesco Greco, head of the Laboratory of Applied Materials for Printed and Soft electronics (LAMPSe) at the Institute of Solid State Physics at Graz University of Technology, developed so-called \u201ctattoo electrodes\u201d together with Italian scientists.<\/p>\n<p>These are conductive polymers that are printed using an inkjet printer on standard tattoo paper and then stuck to the skin like transfers to measure heart or muscle activity.<\/p>\n<p>This type of electrode, optimized in 2018, opened up completely new paths in electrophysiological examinations, such as electrocardiography (ECG) or electromyography (EMG). Thanks to a thickness of 700 to 800 nanometres \u2014 that is about 100 times thinner than a human hair \u2014 the tattoos adapt to uneven skin and are hardly noticeable on the body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015 Francesco Greco, head of the Laboratory of Applied Materials for Printed and Soft electronics (LAMPSe) at the Institute of Solid State Physics at Graz University of Technology, developed so-called \u201ctattoo electrodes\u201d together with Italian scientists. These are conductive polymers that are printed using an inkjet printer on standard tattoo paper and then stuck [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}