Implantable polyimide cable for multichannel high-data-rate neural recording microsystems

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 390-399

  Sun, Tao ^a   Park, Woo Tae ^a   Cheng, Min Yuan ^a   An, Jing Zhi ^a,b   Xue, Rui Feng ^a   Tan, Kwan Ling ^a   Je, Minkyu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

^b DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Biocompatibility; electrical properties; neural prosthesis; polyimide (PI) cable; surface characteristics

Indexed keywords

BONDING PADS; CELL BEHAVIORS; CYTOCOMPATIBILITY; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; FABRICATION PROCESS; ION ETCHING; MICROFABRICATED; MICROMOTION; MULTI-CHANNEL; NEURAL PROBES; NEURAL PROSTHESIS; NEURAL RECORDINGS; POST-IMPLANTATION; REACTIVE OXYGEN; RIBBON CABLE; S PARAMETERS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPIC; STAINING TESTS; SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS; WATER PERMEABILITY; WATER VAPOR TRANSMISSION RATE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BROMINE COMPOUNDS; CABLES; FLAT CABLES; POLYIMIDES; REACTIVE ION ETCHING; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WATER ABSORPTION; WATER VAPOR;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

3 (4,5 DIMETHYL 2 THIAZOLYL) 2,5 DIPHENYLTETRAZOLIUM BROMIDE; POLYIMIDE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS; HIGH DATA RATE NEURAL RECORDING MICROSYSTEM; IMPLANT; PERMEABILITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VAPOR; WATER ABSORPTION; WETTABILITY;

ABSORPTION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SURVIVAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMPLANTS, EXPERIMENTAL; MATERIALS TESTING; NEURAL PROSTHESES; RESINS, SYNTHETIC; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TETRAZOLIUM SALTS; THIAZOLES; WATER;

EID: 84856145117     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2173343     Document Type: Article

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