Microchannel electrodes for recording and stimulation: In vitro evaluation

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1524-1534

  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

Electrophysiology; Neural interfaces; Peripheral nerve; Recording; Stimulation

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIALS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNALS; FINITE-ELEMENT MODELS; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-VITRO; IN-VITRO EVALUATION; IN-VIVO; MICROCHANNEL ARRAY; NARROW CHANNEL; NEURAL INTERFACES; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RECORDING; RECORDING DEVICES; REDUCTION TECHNIQUES; SMALL SCALE; STIMULATION;

ABERRATIONS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); NEUROLOGY;

MICROCHANNELS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; RAT; RECORDING; STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; MICROELECTRODES; MICROTECHNOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 67649199589     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2013960     Document Type: Article

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