A high-performance application specific integrated circuit for electrical and neurochemical traumatic brain injury monitoring
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Author(s)
Pagkalos, Ilias
Rogers, Michelle
Boutelle, Martyn Gordon
Drakakis, Emmanuel Mic
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
This paper presents the first application specific integrated chip (ASIC) for the monitoring of patients who have suffered a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). By monitoring the neuralphysiological (ECoG) and neurochemical (glucose, lactate and potassium) signals of the injured human brain tissue, it is possible to detect spreading depolarisations, which have been shown to be associated with poor TBI patient outcome. This paper describes the testing of a new 7.5mm2 ASIC fabricated in the commercially available AMS 0.35μm CMOS technology. The ASIC has been designed to meet the demands of processing the injured brain tissue's ECoG signals, recorded by means of depth or brain surface electrodes, and neurochemical signals, recorded using microdialysis coupled to microfluidics-based electrochemical biosensors. The potentiostats use switched-capacitor charge integration to record currents with 100fA resolution, and allow automatic gain changing to track the falling sensitivity of a biosensor. This work supports the idea of a "behind the ear" wireless microplatform modality, which could enable the monitoring of currently non-monitored mobile TBI patients for the onset of secondary brain injury.
Date Issued
2018-05-22
Date Acceptance
2018-01-26
Citation
ChemPhysChem: a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry, 2018, 19 (10), pp.1215-1225
ISSN
1439-4235
Publisher
Wiley
Start Page
1215
End Page
1225
Journal / Book Title
ChemPhysChem: a European journal of chemical physics and physical chemistry
Volume
19
Issue
10
Copyright Statement
© 2018 The Authors. Published by Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Sponsor
Wellcome Trust
Wellcome Trust
Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29388305
Grant Number
NA
094912/Z/10/Z
Subjects
Application Specific Integrated Chip for Neurochemical Monitoring
Traumatic Brain Injury
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
Germany
Date Publish Online
2018-01-31