EnerCage: A smart experimental arena with scalable architecture for behavioral experiments

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 139-148

  Jow, Uei Ming ^a   McMenamin, Peter ^a   Kiani, Mehdi ^a   Manns, Joseph R ^b   Ghovanloo, Maysam ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral neuroscience; Biotelemetry; Environmental enrichment; Planar spiral coils (PSCs); Wireless power transmission

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL EXPERIMENT; BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE; IMPLANTABLE ELECTRONICS; LATERAL MISALIGNMENT; PLANAR SPIRALS; POWER TRANSFER EFFICIENCY; SCALABLE ARCHITECTURES; WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BIOTELEMETRY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; MAGNETIC SENSORS; NEUROLOGY; POWER TRANSMISSION;

MAGNETOMETERS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ELECTRIC BATTERY; ELECTRONICS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENERGY TRANSFER; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MAGNETIC FIELD; NONHUMAN; PRODUCTIVITY; RADIOFREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION; RAT; SENSOR; TELEMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MALE; MINIATURIZATION; NEUROSCIENCES; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; TELEMETRY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84891604753     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2278180     Document Type: Article

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