Polyimide cuff electrodes for peripheral nerve stimulation

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 105-118

  Rodríguez, Francisco J ^a   Ceballos, Dolores ^a   Schüttler, Martin ^b   Valero, Antoni ^a   Valderrama, Elena ^c   Stieglitz, Thomas ^b   Navarro, Xavier ^a  

^a Neuroplasticity Group   (Spain)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Functional electrical stimulation; Neural prosthesis; Passive neural damage; Peripheral nerve; Polyimide; Spiral cuff

Indexed keywords

POLYIMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MICROELECTRODE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; MICROELECTRODES; MOTOR NEURONS; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE FATIGUE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NEUROSCIENCES; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PLATINUM; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESINS, SYNTHETIC; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 0342656978     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(00)00192-8     Document Type: Article

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