Active Books: The design of an implantable stimulator that minimizes cable count using integrated circuits very close to electrodes

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 216-227

  Liu, Xiao ^a   Demosthenous, Andreas ^b   Vanhoestenberghe, Anne ^b   Jiang, Dai ^b   Donaldson, Nick ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active Book; crosstalk; distributed stimulation system; humidity measurement; implanted device; integrated circuit; nerve root stimulator; passive discharge; spinal cord injury; tripole

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE BOOK; DISTRIBUTED STIMULATION; HUMIDITY MEASUREMENTS; IMPLANTED DEVICE; NERVE ROOT STIMULATOR; SPINAL CORD INJURIES (SCI); TRIPOLE;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CABLES; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CROSSTALK; ELECTRODES; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES;

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CAUDA EQUINA; COMPUTER; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; ELECTRONICS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; IMPLANTABLE NEUROSTIMULATOR; MALE; MOTONEURON; PATHOLOGY; POWER SUPPLY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CAUDA EQUINA; COMPUTERS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; IMPLANTABLE NEUROSTIMULATORS; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84862810799     PISSN: 19324545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2011.2174360     Document Type: Article

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