Resistive and reactive changes to the impedance of intracortical microelectrodes can be mitigated with polyethylene glycol under acute in vitro and in vivo settings

Frontiers in Neuroengineering

Volumn 7, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Sommakia, Salah ^a,b   Gaire, Janak ^c   Rickus, Jenna L ^a,b   Otto, Kevin J ^a,c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dip coating; Foreign body reaction; Impedance spectroscopy; Intracortical microelectrodes; Polyethylene glycols

Indexed keywords

MACROGOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL ELECTRODE; IMPEDANCE; IMPLANTATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACORTICAL MICROELECTRODE; MICROELECTRODE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; RAT;

EID: 84905449371     PISSN: 16626443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneng.2014.00033     Document Type: Article

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