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Briefing
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- FlatScope – Rice University engineers created FlatScope, flat microscope capable of sitting on brain's surface to detect optical signals from neurons in cortex to compensate people's loss of sight and hearing
- Capabilities – Can capture three-dimensional images at 500 microns deep in tissue as well as monitor, stimulate and visualize up to millions of neurons in the cortex
- Project Budget and Details – Will receive $4 million over four years to develop hardware and software from DARPA as part of $65 million effort to develop high-resolution neural interfaces
- Project Stakeholders – Include Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Rice University's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and Yale University-affiliated John B. Pierce Laboratory
- Next Steps – Aims to enable wireless powering and data gathering from FlatScope with initiative to be handled by Columbia University
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Accelerator
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Sector
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Healthcare/Health Sciences
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Organization
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Rice University
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Source
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Original Publication Date
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July 12, 2017
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