Flexible charge balanced stimulator with 5.6 fC accuracy for 140 nC injections

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 266-275

  Nag, Sudip ^a   Jia, Xiaofeng ^b   Thakor, Nitish V ^b   Sharma, Dinesh ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Charge balancing; electrical stimulation; floating current source; muscle evoked potentials (MEP)

Indexed keywords

CHARGE BALANCING; ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS; ELECTRODE IMPEDANCE; FLOATING CURRENT SOURCES; IN-VIVO MEASUREMENT; NEURONAL STRUCTURE; QUIESCENT CURRENTS; RESISTOR CAPACITORS;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SILVER HALIDES;

CAPACITORS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRODE; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; IMPEDANCE; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; WISTAR RAT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONS; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 84878324532     PISSN: 19324545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2012.2205574     Document Type: Article

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