A regenerative microchannel neural interface for recording from and stimulating peripheral axons in vivo

Journal of Neural Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Fitzgerald, James J ^a   Lago, Natalia ^b,f   Benmerah, Samia ^c   Serra, Jordi ^d   Watling, Christopher P ^e   Cameron, Ruth E ^e   Tarte, Edward ^c   Lacour, Stéphanie P ^e,g   McMahon, Stephen B ^b   Fawcett, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d Neuroscience Technologies   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f INSTITUT PASTEUR DE MONTEVIDEO   (Uruguay)

^g EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; CURRENT FLOWS; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY; EXTRACELLULAR POTENTIAL; IMPLANTED DEVICE; IN-VIVO; MICROCHANNEL ARRAY; MOTOR AXONS; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NERVE INJURIES; NEURAL INTERFACES; NOVEL DESIGN; PERIPHERAL NERVES; POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS; PROSTHETIC LIMB CONTROL; RAT SCIATIC NERVE; SMALL SIZE;

BLOOD VESSELS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MUSCLE; PROSTHETICS;

MICROCHANNELS;

POLYIMIDE; SILICON;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MICROCHANNEL NEURAL INTERFACE; MOTOR UNIT; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE STRETCHING; MYELINATION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANVIER NODE; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SKIN STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ELECTRONICS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMPLANTABLE NEUROSTIMULATOR; INSTRUMENTATION; LEWIS RAT; PHYSIOLOGY;

RATTUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMPLANTABLE NEUROSTIMULATORS; MALE; MINIATURIZATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 84856995666     PISSN: 17412560     EISSN: 17412552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/9/1/016010     Document Type: Article

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