

Organ Emulation on FPGA
Categories for this inventionSoftware Modelling Medical Devices
Intellectual PropertySYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EMULATING HYBRID SYSTEMS PCT Image GalleryQuestions about this Technology?Contact: Maria Jose Alvarez
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SummaryAn emulated heart built from sophisticated software and Field-Programmable Gate Array devices, which mimics human heart behaviour at the cell level, including disease states, with unprecedented accuracy, in real time.
Problems AddressedRapid modelling, or modelling behaviour in real time – within the same timescale that the actual behaviour of interest happens – is a challenging problem, and becomes more difficult as the complexity of the systems of interest increases. Live organ emulations are invasive, time consuming, expensive, and impractical for long-term testing and validation of pacemaker performances, education and training of clinicians and personalized medicine – leaving aside the substantial ethical issues associated with such testing.
ApplicationsSuitable for use in the testing, validation and setting of implantable pacemakers & ICDs, education training and personalized medicine. The model generates electrical signals like those produced by a living heart. The electrical signal represents electrogram measurements on the heart surface, and the heart model generates them in real time using a programmable computer chip. The technology can model the heart as thousands of regions for greater accuracy, helping to understand its functions, disease state and the effect of medications, helping also to improve live testing of pacing devices without using live organs.
TechnologyA real time emulation of a human heart, running on a programmed semiconductor device. The model generates electrical signals like those produced by a living heart. The electrical signal represents electrogram measurements on the heart surface, and the heart model generates them in real time using a programmable computer chip. The technology can model the heart as thousands of regions for greater accuracy, helping to understand its functions, disease state and the effect of medications, helping also to improve live testing of pacing devices without using live organs.
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PROJECT#34582InventorsAssociate Professor Partha RoopDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dr Avinash MalikDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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