High frequency electric stimulation of retinal neurons elicits physiological signaling patterns

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1077-1080

  Fried, Shelley I ^a   Cai, Changsi ^b   Ren, Qiushi ^b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT ACTIVATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GANGLION CELLS; HIGH FREQUENCY; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; INTER-SPIKE INTERVAL; LOW-AMPLITUDE; NEURAL ACTIVITY; PULSE TRAIN; RESPONSE PATTERNS; RESPONSE PROPERTIES; RETINAL PROSTHETICS; SPIKE PATTERNS; VISUAL CORTEXES;

ABILITY TESTING; CELLS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROTHERAPEUTICS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PROSTHETICS;

ALDEHYDES;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMIMETICS; CELL CULTURE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOMIMETICS; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; RABBITS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 84861931518     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090251     Document Type: Conference Paper

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