2017年9月13日
Design of focal brain cooling system for suppressing epileptic seizures
Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
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- 開始ページ
- 283
- 終了ページ
- 286
- DOI
- 10.1109/EMBC.2017.8036817
© 2017 IEEE. Epilepsy is a group of diseases caused by excessive neuronal activities, and one-quarter of the patients do not become seizure-free by the existing treatments. The potential treatments include focal brain cooling, which aims to cool the region where the excessive neuronal activities begin. We are developing a focal brain cooling system. The system delivers cold saline to a cranially implanted cooling device. The outflow is cooled by a Peltier device and pumped for circulation. The Peltier device and the pump are activated only when a seizure is predicted. In this research, the length of time for cooling the brain was calculated with a computational fluid dynamics (CFD)-based model of the focal brain cooling system. As a result, it takes less than 10 minutes for the average temperature 2 mm below the cooling device to reach 25.0 °C. It is much shorter than the time from seizure prediction to seizure onset when an existing algorithm for prediction is used.
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- DOI : 10.1109/EMBC.2017.8036817
- ISSN : 1557-170X
- PubMed ID : 29059865
- SCOPUS ID : 85032231303