Non-destructive whole-brain monitoring using nanorobots : neural electrical dat...

• Author(s): Martins, Nuno R. B. ; Erlhagen, Wolfram ; Freitas, Robert
• Date: 2012
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/20756
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Human brain information; Medical nanorobotics; Nanomedicine; Whole-brain emulation.
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

Neuronanorobotics, a promising future medical technology, may provide the ultimate tool for achieving comprehensive non-destructive real-time in vivo monitoring of the many information channels in the human brain. This paper focuses on the electrical information channel and employs a novel electrophysiological approach to estimate the data rate requirements, calculated to be (5.52 ± 1.13) x 1016 bits/sec in an entire living human brain, for acquiring, transmitting, and storing singleneuron electrical information using medical nanorobots, corresponding to an estimated synapticprocessed spike rate of (4.31 ± 0.86) x 1015 spikes/sec.