Ultralow-noise headstage and main amplifiers for extracellular spike recording

Acta Biologica Szegediensis

Volumn 48, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 13-17

  Budai, Dénes ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b Kation Scientific Co   (United States)

Author keywords

Band pass filtering; Carbon fiber microelectrode; Electromagnetic interference; Grounding and shielding; Random noise; Single unit recording

Indexed keywords

CARBON; IRON; METAL; TIN;

AMPLIFIER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRODE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FILTER; MAGNETIC FIELD; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE POTENTIAL; NOISE; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; RAT; RECORDER; RECORDING; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL PROCESSOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPIKE WAVE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 17144377125     PISSN: 1588385X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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