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Non-destructive Whole-brain Monitoring Using Nanorobots: Neural Electrical Data Rate Requirements

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: Neuronanorobotics, a promising future medical technology, may provide the ultimate tool for achieving comprehensive non-destructive real-time in vivo monitoring of the many information channels in the human brain. This paper focuses on the electrical information channel and employs a novel electrophysiological approach to estimate the data rate requirements, calculated to be (5.52 ± 1.13) x 1016 bits/sec in an entire living human brain, for acquiring, transmitting, and storing singleneuron electrical information using medical nanorobots, corresponding to an estimated synapticprocessed spike rate of (4.31 ± 0.86) x 1015 spikes/sec.

Source: International Journal of Machine Consciousness

DOI: 10.1142/s1793843012400069

Authors: NUNO R. B. MARTINS, WOLFRAM ERLHAGEN, ROBERT A. FREITAS

Institutions: University of Minho, Institute for Molecular Manufacturing

Language: English

Topic: Neuroscience and Neural Engineering

Subfield: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2107503898

FWCI: 0.108

Cites: 181

Cited by: 16

Related to: 10