“When the biology of spinal cord injury is local, our devices should also be able to track and treat local physiology,” says Amir Manbachi, the principal investigator and an associate professor of neurosurgery and biomedical engineering at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
The device that Manbachi and researchers developed and studied, which is called Multimodal Ultrasound System for Injury Care (MUSIC), is designed to enhance feedback about what is happening at and around the site of injury following surgery and to support clinical decisions about care when a patient is recovering in the intensive care unit.