{"id":29006,"date":"2016-08-16T20:16:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T03:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/new-tiny-implantable-devices-are-powered-by-ultrasound"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:55:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:55:22","slug":"new-tiny-implantable-devices-are-powered-by-ultrasound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/new-tiny-implantable-devices-are-powered-by-ultrasound","title":{"rendered":"New Tiny Implantable Devices Are Powered by Ultrasound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-tiny-implantable-devices-are-powered-by-ultrasound.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have developed a wireless device small enough to be implanted in individual nerves, and capable of detecting the electrical activity of nerves and muscles deep within the body, according to DARPA, which funded the work.<\/p>\n<p>The millimeter-scale sensor and external ultrasonic transceiver that powers the implant and communicates with it is called a \u201cneural dust\u201d system. The team, led by the University of California, Berkeley\u2019s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, completed the first in vivo tests of this technology in rodents and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/neuron\/fulltext\/S0896-6273(16)30344-0\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> them in the journal Neuron.<\/p>\n<p>The sensor can be implanted into either a nerve or muscle, and consists of a piezoelectric crystal, a single custom transistor, and a pair of recording electrodes. The system reported both electroneurogram (ENG) recordings from the sciatic nerve and electromyographic (EMG) recordings from the gastrocnemius muscle, according to the journal article.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qmed.com\/mpmn\/medtechpulse\/new-tiny-implantable-devices-are-powered-ultrasound\">http:\/\/www.qmed.com\/mpmn\/medtechpulse\/new-tiny-implantable-d...ultrasound<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed a wireless device small enough to be implanted in individual nerves, and capable of detecting the electrical activity of nerves and muscles deep within the body, according to DARPA, which funded the work. The millimeter-scale sensor and external ultrasonic transceiver that powers the implant and communicates with it is called a \u201cneural [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29006","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50029,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29006\/revisions\/50029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}