An ultrasound image is formed from a collection of ultrasonic beams transmitted and received by an array of transducer elements. …
Malaria prevails mainly in the countries that lack proper medical facilities, and it kills about a million people worldwide a…
Circuits for wearable vital sign monitors have very stringent requirements on power dissipation due to limited energy storage capacity. Extending…
Understanding certain medical conditions requires understanding specific aspects of the blood flow in the arterial network. For instance, diagnosing atherosclerosis…
Two recent advances in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technology have resulted in a need for sophisticated computational electromagnetics (CEM) tools….
The proposed research program has two primary goals. The first goal is to improve the evaluation and treatment of patients…
The development of biosensors is considered a focal subject for clinical applications. The main efforts are being addressed towards in-vivo…
Aptamers are emerging as popular alternatives to antibodies as affinity probes in immunoassays. From a point-of-care diagnostics standpoint, aptamers have…
Energy efficiency and power savings are of paramount importance in the ever-increasing use of implantable and portable medical devices. Front-end…
Recent technological advances in three-dimensional (3D) semiconductor fabrication have provided an implementation platform for powerful multicore, multiprocessor, and network-on-chip (NoC)…
We have designed an ultra-low-power 32-channel neural recording system in a 0.18-µm CMOS technology. The system consists of eight neural…
To achieve comfortable form factors for wireless medical devices, battery size, and thus power consumption, must be curtailed. Often the…
The Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasound Transducer (CMUT) is an alternative to traditional piezoelectric transducers. The CMUT technology provides an opportunity for…
Epilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder that affects about 1% of the world population [1] . It is characterized…
Vital signs such as heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygenation, cardiac output, and respiratory rate are necessary in determining the…
Intracranial pressure (ICP) is a key factor in monitoring a patient’s cerebrovascular state. However, current ICP measurement modalities are highly…
With the escalating costs of hospital visits, clinicians are opting to use at-home monitoring devices to diagnose patients. Current ECG…
This project aims to develop the technology for field-enabled low-power portable vacuum sources that can be made cheaply and reliably,…
An electrospray emitter ionizes polar liquids using high electrostatic fields. The electric field produces suction on the free surface (meniscus)…
Optogenetics is commonly used for precision modulation of the activity of specific neurons within neural circuits [1] , but assessing…