Application of MEMS technology and engineering in medicine: A new paradigm for facial muscle reanimation

Expert Review of Medical Devices

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 371-381

  Cockerham, Kimberly ^a   Aro, Seppo ^b   Liu, Wentai ^c   Pantchenko, Oxana ^c   Olmos, Andrea ^d   Oehlberg, Mark ^a   Sivaprakasam, Mohansankar ^a   Crow, Lauren ^d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Palo Alto Institute for Research and Education   (United States)

^c University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bell's palsy; Chemical stimulation; Electrical stimulation; Facial nerve; MEMS; Micro electromechanical system; Microfluidics; Micromachine; Orbicularis oculi; Ramsay Hunt Syndrome; Seventh cranial nerve

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; BIOCERAMICS; FLUOCINOLONE ACETONIDE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; POLYMER; PREDNISONE; TITANIUM;

BELL PALSY; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOMEDICAL MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; CONTROLLED DRUG RELEASE; DRUG COATING; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG ELUTING STENT; DRUG SPECIFICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE SURGERY; EYELID DISEASE; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; HUMAN; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NANODEVICE; NANOENGINEERING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NEUROMUSCULAR ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; RETINITIS; REVIEW; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; UVEITIS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FACE MUSCLE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATHOLOGY;

DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FACIAL MUSCLES; HUMANS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; TECHNOLOGY, MEDICAL;

EID: 48649097125     PISSN: 17434440     EISSN: 17452422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/17434440.5.3.371     Document Type: Review

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