Microneedle Penetrating Array with Axon-Sized Dimensions for Cuff-less Peripheral Nerve Interfacing

Dongxiao Yan; Ahmad Jiman; David Ratze; Shuo Huang; Saman Parizi; Elissa Welle; Zhonghua Ouyang; Paras Patel; Mark J. Kushner; Cynthia Chestek; Tim M. Bruns; Euisik Yoon; John Seymour

doi:10.1109/NER.2019.8717097

Microneedle Penetrating Array with Axon-Sized Dimensions for Cuff-less Peripheral Nerve Interfacing

Dongxiao Yan, Ahmad Jiman, David Ratze, Shuo Huang, Saman Parizi, Elissa Welle, Zhonghua Ouyang, Paras Patel, Mark J. Kushner, Cynthia Chestek, Tim M. Bruns, Euisik Yoon, John Seymour

Yonsei Advanced Science Institute

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Abstract

Autonomic nerves are typically only hundreds of microns in diameter near their organ targets and these carry all of the sympathetic and parasympathetic control signals. We present a cuff-less microneedle array specifically designed to potentially map small autonomic nerves. The focus of this paper is the design and fabrication of an ultra-miniaturized silicon needle array on a silicone substrate. We demonstrate arrays having 25 to 100 microneedles. Each needle has a 1-micron tip and dual-taper shaft. We demonstrate an ability to control the tip shape, angle, and shaft angle which is important for balancing sharpness and stiffness. These high-density arrays also include a special backside anchor embedded in silicone for stability in the elastic substrate, yet the array freely wraps over a 300-μm nerve. Another critical method presented here is a surgical technique for inserting and securing an array without a cuff (as small as 0.3 mm wide and 1.2 mm long) by photochemical bonding of collagen/Rose Bengal adhesive agents to epineurium. Future work will focus on device functionalization and histological characterization in a rat vagus model.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	9th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER 2019
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	827-830
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538679210
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/NER.2019.8717097
Publication status	Published - 2019 May 16
Event	9th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER 2019 - San Francisco, United States Duration: 2019 Mar 20 → 2019 Mar 23

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Name	International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER
Volume	2019-March
ISSN (Print)	1948-3546
ISSN (Electronic)	1948-3554

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Conference	9th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER 2019
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Francisco
Period	19/3/20 → 19/3/23

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Funding Information:
Research supported by NIH SPARC, Award OT2OD024907 D. Yan (yando@umich.edu), D. Ratze, S. Huang, S. Parizi, M. Kushner (mjkush@umich.edu), E. Yoon (esyoon@umich.edu), J. Seymour (seymourj@umich.edu) are with the University of Michigan Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109 USA

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Yan, D., Jiman, A., Ratze, D., Huang, S., Parizi, S., Welle, E., Ouyang, Z., Patel, P., Kushner, M. J., Chestek, C., Bruns, T. M., Yoon, E., & Seymour, J. (2019). Microneedle Penetrating Array with Axon-Sized Dimensions for Cuff-less Peripheral Nerve Interfacing. In 9th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER 2019 (pp. 827-830). [8717097] (International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER; Vol. 2019-March). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/NER.2019.8717097

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Yan D, Jiman A, Ratze D, Huang S, Parizi S, Welle E et al. Microneedle Penetrating Array with Axon-Sized Dimensions for Cuff-less Peripheral Nerve Interfacing. In 9th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER 2019. IEEE Computer Society. 2019. p. 827-830. 8717097. (International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER). doi: 10.1109/NER.2019.8717097

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