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Defense Intelligence Reference Document Biosensors And A Survey Of The Present Field

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This Defense Intelligence Agency reference document, dated 31 March 2010 (DIA-08-1003-020), was one of a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2009 under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) program. It surveys biosensors and BioMEMS, covering brain-implanted neuroelectrodes, drug-delivery pumps, implantable glucose sensors, brain-machine interfaces, retinal prostheses, microfluidic lab chips, NASA cell culture systems, and microcantilever sensors. It concludes that the field is expanding rapidly toward nanomechanical systems.

  • p. 7 …developed by the faculty of Biomedical Engineering at Arizona State University. 1 UNCLASSIFIED/ /1"91\ 8ffl81i…
  • p. 8 …Varieties of BioMEMS and Sensors. These BioMEMS devices were made at Arizona State University (ASU). They…
  • p. 9 …subject of research by the present author and by colleagues at Arizona State University. BioMEMS Micromachines…
  • p. 21 …days of use. THERMOPILE IMPLANTABLE GLUCOSE SENSORS Towe et al. at Arizona State University have been…
  • p. 23 …A MEMS Thermopile Glucose Sensor (Towe et al., Arizona State University) Heat energy released in the…
  • p. 37 …Research at Arizona State University has been directed towards overcoming the problems of bulk and need…
  • p. 40 …NASA SPACE APPLICATIONS FOR MICROFLUIDIC SYSTEMS NASA has supported at Arizona State University, the development of…
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Biosensors and BioMEMS: A Survey of the Present Field
Introduction
Biomedical sensors and implantable devices employing micro-
electromechanical technology will be important to the future of biomedicine.
Once just science fiction, the notion of a bionic man is now becoming a reality
through the application of microscale technologies. Today it is not unusual to
have a friend or family member who has an implantable device, such as a
pacemaker, defibrillator, cochlear implant, biosensor, neurostimulator, or
insulin pump.
We have only seen the beginning of this technology development, and today's
state-of-the-art implantable devices will be seen as crude and cumbersome
tomorrow. With the rapid pace of development, it is probable that within the
next two decades we will have as many medical treatments based on
microdevices as there are pharmaceutical solutions today. This paper
examines some of the most recent advances in the field, as well as the
technologies that are likely to appear in the next few years.
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