Title :
Micro electrode array with needle structure for brain focal cooling
Author :
Hou, Kuan-Chou ; Chang, Chih-Wei ; Chiou, Jin-Chern
Author_Institution :
Instn. of Electr. & Control Eng., Hsinchu, Taiwan
Abstract :
Cooling is a potential treatment for epilepsy diseases without any electric current pass through the organization of brain. The module is integrated with micro-electrodes and thermo-electric cooler. It was fabricated and utilized inside a rat brain. It can make cooling location deeper in order to improve the diagnosis of focal epilepsy. We are currently determining the efficacy of local cooling for the therapy of certain focal epilepsies.
Keywords :
brain; cooling; diseases; microelectrodes; patient diagnosis; patient treatment; thermoelectricity; brain focal cooling; epilepsy diseases; epilepsy therapy; focal epilepsy diagnosis; microelectrode array; needle structure; potential treatment; rat brain; thermo-electric cooler; Arrays; Cooling; Electric fields; Electrodes; Electroencephalography; Epilepsy; Probes; Epilepsy; MEMS; Rat; TE cooler;
Conference_Titel :
Nanoelectronics Conference (INEC), 2011 IEEE 4th International
Conference_Location :
Tao-Yuan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0379-9
Electronic_ISBN :
2159-3523
DOI :
10.1109/INEC.2011.5991746
