High sensitivity recording of afferent nerve activity using ultra-compliant microchannel electrodes: An acute in vivo validation

Journal of Neural Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Minev, Ivan R ^a   Chew, Daniel J ^b   Delivopoulos, Evangelos ^a   Fawcett, James W ^b   Lacour, Stéphanie P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; CONDUCTION VELOCITY; CROSS SECTION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; IN-VIVO; INNER-ELECTRODES; MECHANICAL HANDLING; MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL; NERVE ACTIVITY; NEUROPROSTHESES; PDMS MICROCHANNELS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PHASE ANGLES; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; PROOF OF PRINCIPLES; SIGNAL AMPLITUDE; SUB-100 NM; TACTILE STIMULATION; TECHNOLOGICAL ROUTE; THREE ELECTRODE; TIME LAG;

DISEASE CONTROL; FADING (RADIO); MICROCHANNELS; ROBOTICS; SENSORY FEEDBACK; SILICONES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ELECTRODES;

DIMETICONE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; BAYSILON; GOLD;

ACCURACY; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL ROOT; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; EVAPORATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; IMMERSION; IMPEDANCE; IN VIVO STUDY; MECHANICS; MICROELECTRODE; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROTECHNOLOGY; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SKIN; TACTILE STIMULATION; TIME; VALIDATION STUDY; ANIMAL; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; NEUROPROSTHESIS; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROBOTICS; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STIMULATION;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANES; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GOLD; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; NEURAL PROSTHESES; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROBOTICS; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SPINAL CORD; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84857870473     PISSN: 17412560     EISSN: 17412552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/9/2/026005     Document Type: Article

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