PMID-16921203[0] Effects of insertion conditions on tissue strain and vascular damage during neuroprosthetic device insertion.
- We have developed an ex vivo preparation to capture real-time images of tissue deformation during device insertion using thick tissue slices from rat brains prepared with fluorescently labeled vasculature.
- Direct damage to the vasculature included severing, rupturing and dragging, and was often observed several hundred micrometers from the insertion site. (yikes!)
- Advocate faster insertion of sharp devices. (tatoo needle?).
- Cortical surface features greatly affected insertion success; insertions attempted through pial blood vessels resulted in severe tissue compression.
- Thus, avoiding vasculature is useful not only for avoiding hemorrhaging, but also to prevent excessive tissue compression.
- High degree of variability
- Indicates that this should be measured! Scientifically interesting!
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- Insertion speeds:
- Fast 2 mm/sec
- Medium 500 um/sec
- Slow 125 um/sec
- Perhaps there is no need to experiment with multiple insertion speeds?
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[0] Bjornsson CS, Oh SJ, Al-Kofahi YA, Lim YJ, Smith KL, Turner JN, De S, Roysam B, Shain W, Kim SJ, Effects of insertion conditions on tissue strain and vascular damage during neuroprosthetic device insertion.J Neural Eng 3:3, 196-207 (2006 Sep) |
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