Publications by Cristina Boero

Wireless Monitoring of Endogenous and Exogenous Biomolecules on an Android Interface

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Francesca Stradolini, Irene Taurino, Cristina Boero, Camilla Baj-Rossi, Grégoire Casimir Joseph Surrel, Stefano Riario

Monitoring patients in intensive care units is generally expensive and time consuming. A prompter medical intervention for those critical patients is a key factor for their safety. Therefore, a system that offers immediate visualization of the monitored da ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

A System for Wireless Power Transfer and Data Communication of Long-Term Bio-Monitoring

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Catherine Dehollain, Francesca Stradolini, Cristina Boero, Camilla Baj-Rossi, Seyedeh Sara Ghoreishizadeh, Stefano Riario, Enver Gürhan Kilinç, Franco Maloberti

A system for wireless power transfer and data communication of implantable bio-monitoring systems is presented. The proposed solution uses a servo-controlled power transmitter moved under the animal moving space. An x-y movable magnetic coil transmits the ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Full System for Translational Studies of Personalized Medicine with Free-Moving Mice (invited)

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Catherine Dehollain, Francesca Stradolini, Cristina Boero, Camilla Baj-Rossi, Seyedeh Sara Ghoreishizadeh, Enver Gürhan Kilinç, Grégoire Casimir Joseph Surrel, Stefano Riario

A full remotely powered system for metabolism monitoring of free-moving mice is presented here. The fully implantable sensing platform hosts two ASICs, one off-the-shelf micro-controller, four biosensors, two other sensors, a coil to receive power, and an ...

2015

Design, development, and validation of an in-situ biosensor array for metabolite monitoring of cell cultures

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Jacopo Olivo, Cristina Boero, Marco Mazza, Maria Antonietta Casulli, Lorenzo Foglia

Conventional pharmaceutical processes involving cell culture growth are generally taken under control with expensive and long laboratory tests performed by direct sampling to evaluate quality. This traditional and well-established approach is just partiall ...

Elsevier2014

Do Carbon Nanotubes Contribute to Electrochemical Biosensing?

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Cristina Boero, Camilla Baj-Rossi

Carbon nanotubes have been attracting a lot of interest as electron transfer mediators to enhance electrochemical biosensing. The main reason behind this is usually recognized in terms of augmented electrochemical active surface area. The aim of this paper ...

Elsevier2014

Sub-mW Reconfigurable Interface IC for Electrochemical Sensing

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Cristina Boero, Camilla Baj-Rossi, Seyedeh Sara Ghoreishizadeh

The IronIC project has the aim of developing a fully implantable and remotely powered platform for the real- time monitoring of human metabolites. In this paper we present a mixed-signal interface IC for the electrochemical sensing data acquisition chain. ...

IEEE2014

Lab-on-a-chip implants: a mini laboratory under the skin

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Cristina Boero

2013

Remote System for Monitoring Animal Models With Single-Metabolite Bio-Nano-Sensors

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Eric Meurville, Andrea Cavallini, Cristina Boero, Léandre Bolomey

A novel system for remote monitoring of metabolism in an animal model is proposed in this paper. The system is obtained by integrating bio-nano-sensors to detect single- metabolites, an electrochemical front-end made with off-the-shelf components, a radio ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2013

Implantable devices: the future of blood monitoring? (Editorial)

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Cristina Boero

Implantable devices can be developed for the simultaneous monitoring of a specific group of key metabolites, identified by more complex techniques, such as mass spectroscopy- or nuclear magnetic -based analysis.. Since there is a strong correlation between ...

2013

New Approaches for Carbon Nanotubes-Based Biosensors and Their Application to Cell Culture Monitoring

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Jacopo Olivo, Cristina Boero

Amperometric biosensors are complex systems and they require a combination of technologies for their development. The aim of the present work is to propose a new approach in order to develop nanostructured biosensors for the real-time detection of multiple ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2012