{"id":28748,"date":"2016-08-08T13:32:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T20:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/ultrasonic-wireless-neural-dust-sensors-monitor-nerves-muscles-in-real-time"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:00:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:00:33","slug":"ultrasonic-wireless-neural-dust-sensors-monitor-nerves-muscles-in-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/ultrasonic-wireless-neural-dust-sensors-monitor-nerves-muscles-in-real-time","title":{"rendered":"Ultrasonic wireless \u2018neural dust\u2019 sensors monitor nerves, muscles in real time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oO0zy30n_jQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" class=\"\" title=\"sensor mote piezoelectric crystal\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ultrasonic-wireless-neural-dust-sensors-monitor-nerves-muscles-in-real-time.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"372\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:560px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><b>Prototype wireless battery-less \u201cneural dust\u201d mote (3 \u00d7 1 x 1 millimeters) with electrodes attached to a nerve fiber in a rat. The mote contains a piezoelectric crystal (silver cube) that converts ultrasonic signals to electrical current, powering a simple electronic circuit containing a transistor (black square) that responds to the voltage generated by a nerve firing and triggers the piezoelectric crystal to create ultrasonic backscatter, which indicates detection of a neural signal. (photo credit: Ryan Neely\/UC Berkeley)<\/b><\/div>\n<p>University of California, Berkeley engineers have designed and built millimeter-scale device wireless, batteryless \u201cneural dust\u201d sensors and implanted them in muscles and peripheral nerves of rats to make <em>in vivo<\/em> electrophysiological recordings.<\/p>\n<p>The new technology opens the door to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electroceuticals\" target=\"_blank\">electroceuticals<\/a>\u201d \u2014 bioelectronic methods to monitor and record wireless <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electromyography\" target=\"_blank\">electromyogram<\/a> (EMG) signals from muscle membranes and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electroneurogram\" target=\"_blank\">electroneurogram<\/a> (ENG) signals from local neuron electrical activity, and to stimulate the immune system, reduce inflammation, and treat disorders such as epilepsy.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/ultrasonic-wireless-neural-dust-sensors-monitor-nerves-muscles-in-real-time\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/ultrasonic-wireless-neural-dust-se...-real-time<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prototype wireless battery-less \u201cneural dust\u201d mote (3 \u00d7 1 x 1 millimeters) with electrodes attached to a nerve fiber in a rat. The mote contains a piezoelectric crystal (silver cube) that converts ultrasonic signals to electrical current, powering a simple electronic circuit containing a transistor (black square) that responds to the voltage generated by a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28748","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60886,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28748\/revisions\/60886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}