Evaluation of μECoG electrode arrays in the minipig: Experimental procedure and neurosurgical approach

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 202, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 77-86

  Gierthmuehlen, Mortimer ^a   Ball, Tonio ^a   Henle, Christian ^a   Wang, Xi ^a   Rickert, Joern ^a   Raab, Markus ^a   Freiman, Thomas ^a   Stieglitz, Thomas ^a   Kaminsky, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain machine interface; Electrocorticography; Minipig; Somatosensory evoked potential

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; BRAIN CORTEX; DURA MATER; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL SURGERY; IMPLANTATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MICRO ELECTROCORTICOGRAM; MINIPIG; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; MICROELECTRODES; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SWINE; SWINE, MINIATURE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 80053576566     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.08.021     Document Type: Article

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