Intraorbital optic nerve stimulation with penetrating electrodes: In vivo electrophysiology study in rabbits

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 247, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 349-361

  Li, Liming ^a   Cao, Pengjia ^a   Sun, Mingjie ^a   Chai, Xinyu ^a   Wu, Kaijie ^a   Xu, Xun ^a   Li, Xiaoxin ^b   Ren, Qiushi ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

EEPs (electrically evoked potentials); Electrophysiology; Optic nerve; Penetrating electrodes; VEPs (visually evoked potentials); Visual prosthesis

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRICALLY EVOKED POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL RABBIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAORBITAL OPTIC NERVE STIMULATION; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PENETRATING ELECTRODE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WAVEFORM;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; OPTIC NERVE; ORBIT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RABBITS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 59749096726     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-008-0977-2     Document Type: Article

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