Current waveforms for neural stimulation-charge delivery with reduced maximum electrode voltage

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2304-2312

  Halpern, Mark Edward ^a   Fallon, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b BIONIC EAR INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Electrical stimulation; linear dynamic systems; neural prosthesis; neural stimulation; optimization

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT CURRENT; CURRENT WAVEFORMS; ELECTRICAL SIGNAL; ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS; ELECTRODE VOLTAGE; LINEAR DYNAMIC SYSTEM; LINEAR-DYNAMIC SYSTEMS; NEURAL PROSTHESIS; NEURAL STIMULATIONS; NEURAL TISSUE;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROSTHETICS;

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS;

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; IMPEDANCE; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVOUS TISSUE; NONHUMAN; SIMULATION; THEORY; WAVEFORM;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CATS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; LINEAR MODELS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 77955873020     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2053203     Document Type: Article

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