An array of microactuated microelectrodes for monitoring single-neuronal activity in rodents

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1470-1477

  Muthuswamy, Jit ^a   Okandan, Murat ^b   Gilletti, Aaron ^a   Baker, Michael S ^b   Jain, Tilak ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Action potentials; BioMEMS; Brain implants; Microactuators; Neuro prosthesis

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BRAIN; CHIP SCALE PACKAGES; DECISION MAKING; EPOXY RESINS; MICROACTUATORS; MICROELECTRODES; NEUROLOGY; OPTIMIZATION;

ACTION-POTENTIALS; BIOMEMS; BRAIN-IMPLANTS; NEURO-PROSTHESIS;

ARRAYS;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; MICROELECTRODE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PROSTHESIS; RAT; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; MOTION; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 23844538849     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2005.851478     Document Type: Article

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