{"title":"Optical sensor and interface technologies for implantable biomedical devices","authors":"J. Ohta","doi":"10.1109/IWASI.2017.7974259","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Recently, combination of genetic engineering and optical technology enables to measure and control biological functions with light. Fluorescent protein such as GFP can be used as an optical tag of a specific molecule, and photoactive protein such as ChR2 can be applied for optical manipulation of biological functions. This presentation introduces some kinds of implantable optical devices for measuring and controlling biological functions in the brain of a freely-moving rodent. Future direction is addressed for achieving bidirectional optical communication with brain.","PeriodicalId":332606,"journal":{"name":"2017 7th IEEE International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces (IWASI)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2017 7th IEEE International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces (IWASI)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IWASI.2017.7974259","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Recently, combination of genetic engineering and optical technology enables to measure and control biological functions with light. Fluorescent protein such as GFP can be used as an optical tag of a specific molecule, and photoactive protein such as ChR2 can be applied for optical manipulation of biological functions. This presentation introduces some kinds of implantable optical devices for measuring and controlling biological functions in the brain of a freely-moving rodent. Future direction is addressed for achieving bidirectional optical communication with brain.