Biocompatibility of intracortical microelectrodes: Current status and future prospects

Frontiers in Neuroengineering

Volumn 3, Issue MAY, 2010, Pages

  Marin, Cristina ^a   Fernández, Eduardo ^a,b  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^b BIOMATERIALES Y NANOMEDICINA CIBER BBN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brain machine interface; Coating; Glial scar; Neural interface; Neural prosthesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955629423     PISSN: 16626443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneng.2010.00008     Document Type: Article

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