Electrode impedance analysis of chronic tungsten microwire neural implants: Understanding abiotic vs. biotic contributions

Frontiers in Neuroengineering

Volumn 7, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Sankar, Viswanath ^a   Dieme, Erin Patrick Robert ^a   Sanchez, Justin C ^b   Prasad, Abhishek ^b   Nishida, Toshikazu ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic neural implants; Corrosion; Electrode impedance; Finite element modeling; Insulation delamination

Indexed keywords

TUNGSTEN;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHRONIC TUNGSTEN MICROWIRE NEURAL IMPLANT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE IMPEDANCE ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENCAPSULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMPEDANCE; MALE; MICROELECTRODE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 84900542072     PISSN: 16626443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneng.2014.00013     Document Type: Article

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