Breast implant with regionalized analyte sensors and internal power source
Breast implants including sensor modules and related methods are described herein. Breast implants include those with: a shell configured to be substantially filled with a viscous material; a plurality of projections extending from an external surface of the shell, the projections forming a plurality of compartments adjacent to the external surface of the shell; at least one fluid-permeable cover attached to the projections, the cover completely enveloping the shell and the plurality of projections; a plurality of sensor modules attached to the shell, each of the sensor modules oriented to detect one or more analytes in a fluid within one of the plurality of compartments, wherein each of the plurality of sensor modules includes a unique identifier; and at least one power source operably attached to the plurality of sensor modules.
1. A method of monitoring information from a breast implant, comprising:
sending, from a remote device, a query signal to at least one transmission unit attached to a breast implant in vivo, the at least one transmission unit attached to at least two sensor modules attached to the breast implant with a distance between the at least two sensor modules;
receiving, from a remote device, a response signal from the at least one transmission unit attached to the breast implant, the response signal including positional information from each of the at least two sensor modules;
processing, in a computing device, the response signal to identify information from the at least two sensor modules; and
identifying, for each of the at least two sensor modules, a detection result and a position on the breast implant.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the detection result for each of the one or more sensor modules includes a positive result, a negative result, or a null result.
3. The method of claim 1 , comprising:
initiating a display of the detection result and the position on the breast implant for at least one of the sensor modules.
4. The method of claim 1 , comprising:
initiating a graphic display of the breast implant, the graphic display including a position for each of the sensor modules and the detection result for at least one of the sensor modules.
5. A method of monitoring information from a breast implant, comprising:
sending a signal from at least one transmission unit attached to a breast implant in vivo, the signal including information regarding at least two sensor modules attached to the breast implant with a distance between the at least two sensor modules, the at least one transmission unit attached to the at least two sensor modules;
receiving, at a remote device, the signal from the at least one transmission unit attached to the breast implant;
processing, in a computing device, the signal to identify information from the at least two sensor modules; and
identifying, for each of the at least two sensor modules, a detection result and a position on the breast implant.
6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the detection result for each of the one or more sensor modules includes a positive result, a negative result, or a null result.
7. The method of claim 5 , comprising:
initiating a display of the detection result and the position on the breast implant for at least one of the sensor modules.
8. The method of claim 5 , comprising:
initiating a graphic display of the breast implant, the graphic display including a position for each of the sensor modules and the detection result for at least one of the sensor modules.