Ultra-miniature headstage with 6-channel drive and vacuum-assisted micro-wire implantation for chronic recording from the neocortex

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 37-46

  Venkatachalam, Suri ^a   Fee, Michale S ^b   Kleinfeld, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Extracellular; Lead screw; Rat; Stereotrode; Vimentin

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; INSTRUMENT; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; MICROELECTRODES; MINIATURIZATION; NEOCORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; VACUUM;

EID: 0032799269     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(99)00065-5     Document Type: Article

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