A Micromachined Silicon Sieve Electrode for Nerve Regeneration Applications

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 305-313

  Akin, Tayfun ^a   Najafi, Khalil ^a   Smoke, Richard H ^a   Bradley, Robert M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; MICROELECTRODES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON;

MICROMACHINED SILICON SIEVE ELECTRODES; NERVE REGENERATION;

BIOSENSORS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; IMPEDANCE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; RAT;

ANIMAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROELECTRODES; NERVE REGENERATION; RATS; SILICON; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0028414179     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.284958     Document Type: Article

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