Imec is co-developing with Swiss medtech specialist NeuroGyn an implantable device for peripheral nerve stimulation. NeuroGyn specialises in neurostimulaton and surgical solutions for pelvic nerve disorders. Leveraging Imec’s expertise in ultra-low power wireless communication and powering, the new implant aims at prolonging the lifetime of the device while lowering its cost, making it suitable at the point of need. Clinical ...
For some medical applications, the reliability of components is vital. Shiraz Vakharia of Knowles highlights some of the application-specific decisions medical device designers need to make. In the medical industry, highly reliable electronic components are necessary for a variety of devices – ranging from systems that diagnose, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines, to implantable devices that treat patients, such ...
Review Display Systems (RDS) has introduced a 13.3in TFT display module for industrial use. Made by Tianma, the P1330FHF1MA00 is an HD display 1,920 x 1,080 pixels, 16:9 aspect ratio) with in-plane switching. “Tianma P-series display modules have been designed and developed to deliver exceptional optical performance and meet the requirements of the industrial and medical display markets and applications ...
Analog Devices is aiming at wearable patient monitoring devices with an analogue front-end for four vital signs: electrocardiogram, heart rate, blood-oxygen saturation and respiration rate. The chip, MAX86178, does this with three channels, one each for: photodiodes (optical PPG for blood oxygen and heart rate), voltages (electrocardiogram (‘ECG’ or ‘EKG’) and alternative heart rate) and bio-impedance (‘bio-z’ for respiration rate) Optical ...
Anglia Components has broken ranks with other distributors targeting the UK’s start-ups and entrepreneurs and has launched a dedicated division, Anglia Unicorn, to put academic start-ups in touch with financial seeders and both in touch with skilled engineers who can make the vision a reality. Named after the mythical creature which eludes capture, a Unicorn company is a start-up that ...
Gowanda Electronics has introduced a series of non-magnetic RF inductors for medical imaging equipment – MRI and some x-ray machines – and other applications where magnetic materials must be avoided. Called 28MG, there are 60 devices spanning 1.2 to 18µH with resistances between 79mΩ and 4.15Ω, and carrying capacity of 315mA to 2.4A. They are all the same size, with bodies 23mm ...
Good quality sleep is linked to behavioural issues in young children. Laurence Weir looks at new sensor technology which tracks sleep patterns. The quality of a child’s sleep can have a huge impact on their lives. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, a quarter of children under the age of five do not get adequate sleep. A continual lack ...
Wireless ‘neurograins’, 48 of them, have been used to record rodent neural activity, at Brown University in Rhode Island. The sensing particles independently record electrical pulses made by neurons and send the signals to a central hub outside the skull for coordination and processing. “One of the big challenges in the field of brain-computer interfaces is engineering ways of probing as ...
Precision cleaning of wearable electronics boosts reliability, says Emily Peck of Microcare. The past year has seen a huge boost in the growth for wearable devices to diagnose and monitor patient health. The importance of remote patient monitoring (RPM) has become even more important in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Lockdowns, travel restrictions and the requirement for social distancing ...
Harvard and MIT researchers have teamed up to prototype a self-contained saliva-based diagnostic Covid test that can distinguish between variants in an hour and is “just as accurate as the PCR tests now used”, according to MIT. It is called ‘miSherlock’, for ‘minimally-instrumented Sherlock’, where Sherlock is a Crispr-based DNA/RNA test invented at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Two ...
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