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AssigneeMassachusetts Institute of Technology
InventorsAnthony Zorzos, Clifton Fonstad, Edward Boyden, Jacob Bernstein
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This invention may be implemented as a microstructure probe for delivering light of variable color and/or power, via a set of integrated lightguides, from an optical source (or set of sources) to regions spatially arranged 3-dimensionally, with a length scale of microns to millimeters. In exemplary embodiments of this invention, a microstructure probe comprises many lightguides and is adapted to be inserted into neural or other tissue. The lightguides run in parallel along at least a portion of the axis of the probe. The probe may deliver light to many points along the axis of insertion of the probe. This invention may be implemented as an array of two or more such probes (each of which comprises multiple lightguides). This array may be used to deliver light to neural tissue in a complex 3D pattern.
Apparatus comprising a plurality of microfabricated lightguides, which apparatus is adapted for:
Apparatus comprising a plurality of probes, wherein:
Apparatus comprising a plurality of lightguides, wherein said lightguides are adapted:
A process that comprises using an insertable probe comprising a plurality of lightguides to send light to a plurality of locations at different depths along the axis of insertion of said probe.
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