Miniaturized thermal system formed with semiconductor material with medical applications

Abstract

In a first embodiment, a portable, battery-operated, minimally invasive small fiber neuropathy testing and diagnostic device, microcontrolled and interfacing with wireless powering to a wireless communications device is being disclosed. Said device is constructed out of an intra-epidermal thermal stimulus consisting of an electronically heated temperature-controlled polymer covered semiconductor materiallowered inside the skin through a probeconfigured with three miniaturized electrodeswhile a nerve impulse response measurement system records and identifies nerve action potential pulses through a proprietary algorithm. The invention also discloses a detection and characterization method of action potential pulses from neuron cells with respect to their timing such as pulse repetition statistics and rates from a single-point of measurement as diagnostically relevant for determining neuropathies. In an alternate embodiment, a medical device is constructed for biological tissue treatment for achieving a collagen denaturing effect or thermal tissue ablation.