A method for recording resistance changes non-invasively during neuronal depolarization with a view to imaging brain activity with electrical impedance tomography

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 87-96

  Gilad, Ori ^a,b   Ghosh, Anthony ^a   Oh, Dongin ^a   Holder, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

EIT; Electrical impedance tomography; Evoked responses; Neural imaging; Neuronal depolarization

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOPHYSICS; CELL MEMBRANE; COMPUTER ASSISTED IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; NERVE CELL; NEURONAL DEPOLARIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; WALKING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; BRACHYURA; BRAIN; CELL MEMBRANE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 67349085484     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2009.03.012     Document Type: Article

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