Implantable stimulator for bipolar stimulation without charge balancing circuits

2010 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, BioCAS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 202-205

  Chun, Hosung ^a   Lehmann, Torsten ^a   Yang, Yuanyuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANODIC CURRENTS; BIPHASIC; BLOCKING CAPACITOR; CHARGE BALANCES; CHARGE IMBALANCE; CHARGE-BALANCING CIRCUITS; CURRENT PULSE; FULL SCALE; HV CMOS; IMPLANTABLE STIMULATORS; NEURAL STIMULATIONS; POWER SUPPLY; RESIDUAL DC; TISSUE DAMAGE;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 79952405737     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIOCAS.2010.5709606     Document Type: Conference Paper

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