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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2008
Karl Deisseroth, Palo Alto, CA (US);
M. Bret Schneider, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Karl Deisseroth, Palo Alto, CA (US);
M. Bret Schneider, Portola Valley, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Abstract
Various systems and methods are implemented for in vivo use in a living animal. One such method involves stimulating target cells having light-responsive proteins and includes providing an elongated light-delivery structure in a narrow passageway in the animal, the elongated light-delivery structure having separately-activatable light sources located along the length of the elongated light-delivery structure. The method also includes activating less than all the light sources to deliver light to light-responsive proteins adjacent to the activated light sources along the length of the elongated light-delivery structure, thereby stimulating target cells in vivo.