TRLUP – NeuroSpritz

Electroencephalogram (EEG) setup and application are time consuming (current solutions involve ~50.3 minutes of setup/patient or participant) and requires expert application (making it inaccessible to many). The extensive time to setup EEGs limits the number of research participants and patients that a researcher or clinician can see in one day. This problem directly impacts research teams and clinicians as gatekeepers, and more generally affects those with neurological conditions who require an EEG. This time-consuming application leads to an EEG diagnostic wait time of greater than 6 months in 73% of Ontario clinics. The proposed solution is a refillable spray bottle which dispenses up to 19 disposable, wireless, floating microelectrodes onto a user’s head in the 10-20 system. Each electrode is carried through one channel, which sprays compressed air onto the patient’s scalp, followed by a high precision spray of conductive saline “hairspray” with the microelectrode. The process is completed with a spray of compressed air from an outer nozzle which rearranges hair to cover the wireless microelectrode(s). The dynamic nozzles adjust their trajectories using a flexure actuator system. The device is designed to save clinicians and researchers >30 minutes/participant, and increasing access to EEGs for pediatric and geriatric patients.

Faculty Supervisor:

Tyler Charlebois

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Partner:

DMZ Ventures Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning

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