Monitoring Blood Glucose with a Visual Stimulus

We will develop a visual stimulus capable of causing a subjective visual effect that tracks blood gconcentration. This visual stimulus would then be used in Phase II to develop a non-invasive glucosewhich there exists a great need and a large commercial opportunity. A non-invasive glucose monitor btechnology will be small and inexpensive, since it does not use a detector. Even though recent reseadiabetics are able to forestall the debilitating and often fatal complications of diabetes by frequeonly a small percentage of patients currently monitor their glucose levels. This is because currentblood glucose are painful, inconvenient and costly. Preliminary research uncovered a subjective visublood glucose concentration during glucose tolerance tests on three normal subjects. A tentative modmechanism responsible for the visual effect and its dependence on blood glucose. This research willover a wider range of glucose levels and on a larger number of subjects, mostly diabetics; 2) test tfor glucose; 3) magnify the visual effect in order to make the measurements possible on inattentive