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Grant Number:	3R44MH054410-04S1
PI Name:	MANUCCIA, THOMAS J.
PI Email:	tmanuccia@schafercorp.com
PI Title:	CHIEF SCIENTIFIC OFFICER
Project Title:	OPTICALLY SWITCHED MICROELECTRODE ARRAY

Abstract: This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will develop a new type of microelectrode array for basic neuroscience and, eventually, rehabilitation medicine research applications. Researchers, clinicians and bioengineers need to have finer and more specific access to individual neurons. The proposed device significantly improves both spatial and temporal specificity and provides numerous advantages over existing technology. Only simple and well-known materials (silicon) and fabrication procedures are employed. Numerous choices are available for contact and other materials, and only off-the-shelf supporting components are needed. The first devices to be constructed will be planar, but later devices could be fabricated in non-planar geometries. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: The proposed device should have wide marketability within the basic neuroscience research and rehabilitation medicine research communities. On a longer time scale, this device has the potential to penetrate the much more difficult, but potentially larger medical devices market in the area of functional electric stimulation.

Thesaurus Terms:
biomedical equipment development, electronic recording system, electrophysiology, fiber optics, microelectrode
neurophysiology, semiconduction, silicon
bioimaging /biomedical imaging

Institution:	SCHAFER CORPORAGIONT
	321 BILLERCIA RD
	CHELMSFORD, MA 01824
Fiscal Year:	2003
Department:
Project Start:	30-SEP-1996
Project End:	30-JUN-2003
ICD:	NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH
IRG:	ZRG1

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