Friday, April 10, 2009

Noninvasive Muscle Assesment Device Under Development

Filed under: Neurology

MIT Technology Review is profiling a muscle functional analysis device developed in a collaboration between scientists at Harvard Medical School and MIT. Using advanced electrical impedance myography techniques, the probe can sense the state of muscle tissue through the skin.

Here's Seward Rutkove, a Harvard neuroscientist, demonstrating and explaining the device:

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