Characteristics of electrode impedance and stimulation efficacy of a chronic cortical implant using novel annulus electrodes in rat motor cortex

Journal of Neural Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Wang, Chun ^a   Brunton, Emma ^a   Haghgooie, Saman ^a   Cassells, Kahli ^a   Lowery, Arthur ^a   Rajan, Ramesh ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVICE FUNCTIONALITY; ELECTRODE IMPEDANCE; FUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCE; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; IMPLANTED ELECTRODES; LONG TERM STABILITY; STIMULATION THRESHOLDS; SYSTEMATIC CHANGES;

BRAIN; NEURAL PROSTHESES; RATS;

ELECTRODES;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CORTICAL ELECTRODE; DENSITY; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; IMPEDANCE; IMPLANTATION; IN VITRO STUDY; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ANIMALS; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84883169257     PISSN: 17412560     EISSN: 17412552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/10/4/046010     Document Type: Article

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