Title
A silicon pancreatic islet for the treatment of diabetes
Abstract
This paper presents an integrated silicon pancreatic islet to be used for the control algorithm of an artificial pancreas. The system replicates the temporal behaviour of the electrophysiology of the alpha and beta cells which are located in the islet of Langerhans in the pancreas, generating signals which can be used to infuse the two regulatory hormones, glucagon and insulin, used for tight glycemic control. The silicon islet can be easily programmed to choose between multiple bursting periods and can thus be tailored to each patients insulin sensitivity. Designed in a 0.35μm process, the system is fully integrated with an on-chip digitally tuned oscillator to drive the system and an algorithmic mode A/D converter to interface to an electrochemical glucose sensor.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/ISCAS.2010.5537964
Circuits and Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
artificial organs,bioelectric phenomena,electrochemical sensors,silicon,sugar,alpha cell,artificial pancreas,beta cell,control algorithm,diabetes treatment,digitally tuned oscillator,electrochemical glucose sensor,electrophysiology,glucagon,glycemic control,insulin,islet of Langerhans,regulatory hormone,silicon pancreatic islet
Biomedical engineering,Artificial pancreas,Diabetes mellitus,Computer science,Control theory,Islet,Control engineering,Alpha cell,Glucagon,Insulin,Pancreas,Beta cell
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0271-4302
978-1-4244-5309-2
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.47
2
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
MohamedFayes El Sharkawy120.47
Pantelis Georgiou211150.64
Christofer Toumazou326559.06