This paper by us and our collaborators at the University of British Columbia, summarizes spinal cord injury (SCI) research models. We are working to understand how the bladder is impacted after SCI, and eventually, how to mitigate the damage.
To read more, visit Biomedicines.
Congratulations to everyone involved with this significant work! We think this is the first device to measure pressure and volume in the bladder, without catheters. This technology enables at-home diagnosis of urinary incontinence, advanced treatments like conditional neuromodulation, and sensory restoration of bladder fullness.
S. J. A. Majerus, B. Hanzlicek, Y. Hacohen, D. Cabal, D. Bourbeau and M. S. Damaser, “Wireless and Catheter-Free Bladder Pressure and Volume Sensor,” in IEEE Sensors Journal, doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2023.3267749.
Co-authors Vikram Abbaraju, Kevin Lewis, Jiahe Han, Mohamed Abdelhady, Lee Brody, Margot Damaser, and Steve Majerus published ongoing work on real-time bladder event detection and improved urodynamics testing using machine learning, wavelet decomposition, and system identification at the 2022 IEEE SPMB conference.
Steve Majerus and Vikram Abbaraju both gave talks at this virtual meeting. You can find the papers and presentations at the IEEE SPMB 2022 site.
Congratulations to the authors of these papers – We look forward to presenting them in Dallas at the IEEE Sensors conference this year!
Stay tuned for the full articles on IEEExplore and PubMed Central.
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“A Catheter-Free Bladder Pressure-Volume Sensor”
“An RFID-Based Sensor for Vascular Flow Monitoring”