Microchannels as axonal amplifiers

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1136-1146

  FitzGerald, James J ^a   Lacour, Stéphanie P ^b   McMahon, Stephen B ^c   Fawcett, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Finite element methods; Modeling; Neural interfaces; Peripheral nerve

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODES; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AXONAL AMPLIFIERS; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL; MICROCHANNEL ARCHITECTURE;

MICROCHANNELS;

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DEVICE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE FIBER; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; RANVIER NODE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AMPLIFIERS; AXONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; HUMANS; MICROELECTRODES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PERIPHERAL NERVES;

EID: 39749154723     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.909533     Document Type: Article

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