Abstract: In a first embodiment, a portable, battery-operated, minimally invasive small fiber neuropathy testing and diagnostic device, microcontrolled and interfacing with wireless powering to a wireless communications device is being disclosed. Said device is constructed out of an intra-epidermal thermal stimulus consisting of an electronically heated temperature-controlled polymer covered semiconductor material 101 lowered inside the skin through a probe 108 configured with three miniaturized electrodes 109 while a nerve impulse response measurement system records and identifies nerve action potential pulses through a proprietary algorithm. The invention also discloses a detection and characterization method of action potential pulses from neuron cells with respect to their timing such as pulse repetition statistics and rates from a single-point of measurement as diagnostically relevant for determining neuropathies.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 31, 2013
Date of Patent:
June 16, 2015
Assignee:
BioSignostix Inc.
Inventors:
Carmen-Gabriela Stefanita, Christopher Jonathan Zarowski