Abiotic-biotic characterization of Pt/Ir microelectrode arrays in chronic implants

Frontiers in Neuroengineering

Volumn 7, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Prasad, Abhishek ^a   Xue, Qing Shan ^b   Dieme, Robert ^c   Sankar, Viswanath ^c   Mayrand, Roxanne C ^d   Nishida, Toshikazu ^c   Streit, Wolfgang J ^b   Sanchez, Justin C ^a,d  

^a University of Miami College of Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of Florida   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Abiotic; Biotic; Blood brain barrier (BBB); Floating microelectrode arrays (FMA); Impedance; Neural interface; Neuroinflammation; Pt Ir microelectrodes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894096331     PISSN: 16626443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneng.2014.00002     Document Type: Article

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