Use of tripolar electrodes for minimization of current spread in uncut peripheral nerve stimulation

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 63-66

  Ohsawa, Ichiro ^a,b   Inui, Koji ^a,c  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Current spread; Peripheral nerve stimulation; Shock artifact; Tripolar electrodes; Vagus nerve

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SPIKE WAVE; VAGUS NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTRODES; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLES; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 64249138260     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2009.01.016     Document Type: Article

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