Biocompatibility of chronically implanted transverse intrafascicular multichannel electrode (TIME) in the rat sciatic nerve

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2324-2332

  Badia, Jordi ^a   Boretius, Tim ^b   Pascual Font, Arán ^a   Udina, Esther ^a   Stieglitz, Thomas ^b   Navarro, Xavier ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE NEUROCIÈNCIES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bidirectional interface; intrafascicular electrode; neuroprosthesis; peripheral nerve

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; ELECTRODES; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); NEUROSURGERY; RATS;

CHRONIC IMPLANTATION; MORPHOLOGICAL EFFECTS; MULTICHANNEL ELECTRODES; NEURO-PROSTHESIS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RAT SCIATIC NERVE; SCIATIC NERVES; SECOND GROUP;

NEURAL PROSTHESES;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATION; ELECTRODE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMPLANTATION; NEUROPROSTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; RAT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCIATIC NERVE; TRANSVERSE INTRAFASCICULAR MULTICHANNEL ELECTRODE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFECTS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; MATERIALS TESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; DRUG EFFECT; EQUIPMENT FAILURE;

BIOMATERIAL;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATERIALS TESTING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 79957942755     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2153850     Document Type: Article

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