Undergraduate NeuroBridge Biomedical Research Team @NJIT
http://www.njit.edu/features/innovations/biomed.php
The Neuro-Bridge is a medical device with the objective of providing rehabilitative treatment for people affected by any peripheral neural damage than can directly or indirectly causes muscular weakness. Many patients are affected by countless peripheral neural disorders that do not give a person the necessary neural signals to contract and relax the required muscles to perform a specific movement. These peripheral neural problems can be caused by stroke, multiple sclerosis, traumatic injuries, spinal cord injuries or other neural disorders. The project will work with a strategy of using healthy and unaffected EMG signals from one unaffected muscle or more. Then these EMG signals are processed through a circuit that produces usable and functional signals. These signals are consequently sent to the affected muscle that is affected by the neural problem. The unaffected and affected muscles that will be chosen are those that work together on the same specific movement.
The Department of Biomedical Engineering was established in 2001 to draw on the university's expertise in such areas as microelectromechanical systems and tissue engineering, in support of New Jersey's burgeoning biotechnology industry. In just a few years, the department has become one of the largest in the Newark College of Engineering. In 2003, the Department of Biomedical Engineering moved into specially designed space in Fenster Hall. Equipped with dedicated laboratories and classrooms the faculty pioneered a studio approach to education emphasizing hands-on, experiment-based learning.
The department has built a considerable research program with support from such agencies as the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, Essilor, Inc., and the Iowa Corn Promotion Board. Research areas of concentration include stem cell applications in tissue regeneration, vision and neural engineering, bioMEMS, motion analysis and rehabilitation engineering, biomaterials and biopolymers.
http://www.njit.edu/features/innovations/biomed.php
The Neuro-Bridge is a medical device with the objective of providing rehabilitative treatment for people affected by any peripheral neural damage than can directly or indirectly causes muscular weakness. Many patients are affected by countless peripheral neural disorders that do not give a person the necessary neural signals to contract and relax the required muscles to perform a specific movement. These peripheral neural problems can be caused by stroke, multiple sclerosis, traumatic injuries, spinal cord injuries or other neural disorders. The project will work with a strategy of using healthy and unaffected EMG signals from one unaffected muscle or more. Then these EMG signals are processed through a circuit that produces usable and functional signals. These signals are consequently sent to the affected muscle that is affected by the neural problem. The unaffected and affected muscles that will be chosen are those that work together on the same specific movement.
The Department of Biomedical Engineering was established in 2001 to draw on the university’s expertise in such areas as microelectromechanical systems and tissue engineering, in support of New Jersey’s burgeoning biotechnology industry. In just a few years, the department has become one of the largest in the Newark College of Engineering. In 2003, the Department of Biomedical Engineering moved into specially designed space in Fenster Hall. Equipped with dedicated laboratories and classrooms the faculty pioneered a studio approach to education emphasizing hands-on, experiment-based learning.
The department has built a considerable research program with support from such agencies as the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, Essilor, Inc., and the Iowa Corn Promotion Board. Research areas of concentration include stem cell applications in tissue regeneration, vision and neural engineering, bioMEMS, motion analysis and rehabilitation engineering, biomaterials and biopolymers.
