Stochastic Population Model for Electrical Stimulation of the Auditory Nerve

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2493-2501

  Imennov, Nikita S ^a   Rubinstein, Jay T ^b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory nerve (AN) fibers; cochlear implants; electrical stimulation; ion channel gating; neural prosthesis; relative spread (RS); sensory coding; stochastic ion channels; temporal jitter

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAT; CHANNEL GATING; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; COCHLEAR NERVE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; NERVE FIBER; PHYSIOLOGY; RANVIER NODE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPIRAL GANGLION; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; CATS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COCHLEAR NERVE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ION CHANNEL GATING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE FIBERS; RANVIER'S NODES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPIRAL GANGLION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 74049151489     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2016667     Document Type: Article

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