Revolutionizing Medical Imaging and Brain-Computer Communication with Consumer Electronics – Mary Lou Jepsen

a fun weekend “brain spa” — the BrainMind Symposium at Stanford (and here are my notes on the talks):

If you spend 10-100 hours in an fMRI, we can read your thoughts. 2/3 of humanity lacks access to medical imaging. She wants to reduce the cost 200x and fit it into a ski cap.

Tumor has 5x the blood of normal tissue. And Blood is relatively opaque (versus flesh). Bones are white, and near IR passes through. We can image to 2 microns, the diameter of the smallest neuron. Use laser and sound wave that shifts the wavelength ever so slightly.

Her TED Talk came out recently.