DocumentCode
2862623
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
fYear
2011
fDate
21-24 June 2011
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Nanoelectronics Conference (INEC), 2011 IEEE 4th International
Conference_Location
Tao-Yuan
ISSN
2159-3523
Print_ISBN
978-1-4577-0379-9
Electronic_ISBN
2159-3523
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/INEC.2011.5991746
Filename
5991746
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