Title
An electroacoustic recording device for wireless sensing of neural signals.
Abstract
Elimination of wires connecting neural recording electrodes to external electronics is highly desired, particularly in survival animal studies, due to neural damage and the device failures caused by these wires. In this study, an electroacoustic device for sensing and wireless transmission of neural signals to an external unit is proposed and results from a prototype are presented. In this method, the neural signals modulate the acoustic pulse amplitudes generated by a small piezoelectric element that is implanted at the recording site. The acoustics waves are detected wirelessly outside the nervous system by another piezoelectric transducer and the neural signals are extracted by amplitude demodulation. To test the prototype, a sinusoidal signal with 100µVpp amplitude was applied in phosphate buffered saline to simulated neural signals and the external transducer was placed 10mm away from the recording element. The results show that a sinusoidal signal of the given amplitude could be wirelessly sensed and reconstructed with a signal-to-noise ratio of 14dB.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/EMBC.2013.6610193
EMBC
Keywords
Field
DocType
signal denoising,remote sensing,amplitude demodulation,external transducer,neural recording,device failures,piezoelectric element,wireless sensing,neurophysiology,sensing transmission,biomedical electrodes,ultrasonic waves,signal-noise ratio,acoustic pulse amplitudes,medical signal processing,nervous system,neural signal simulation,external electronics,sinusoidal signal,neural signal modulation,acoustoelectric transducers,electroacoustic recording device,wireless transmission,recording element,signal reconstruction,ultrasound,ultrasonic transducers,piezoelectric transducers,neural recording electrodes,neural signal extraction,piezoelectric transducer,phosphate buffered saline,acoustic waves,neural damage,electrodes,wireless communication,signal noise ratio,modulation
Transducer,Demodulation,Ultrasonic sensor,Wireless,Computer science,Electronic engineering,Pulse (signal processing),Acoustics,Electrical engineering,Amplitude,Signal reconstruction,Piezoelectricity
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
2013
1557-170X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hua Meng121.39
Mesut Sahin211.27