A multi-channel, flex-rigid ECoG microelectrode array for visual cortical interfacing

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 832-854

  Tolstosheeva, Elena ^a   Gordillo González, Víctor ^a   Biefeld, Volker ^a   Kempen, Ludger ^a   Mandon, Sunita ^a   Kreiter, Andreas K ^a   Lang, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomedical electrodes; Implantable biomedical devices; In vivo; Neural microtechnology; Neural prosthesis

Indexed keywords

BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FACINGS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MICROELECTRODES; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NEURAL PROSTHESES; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRAL DENSITY;

BIOMEDICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTROCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATIONS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMMUNICATION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; IMPLANTABLE BIOMEDICAL DEVICES; IN-VIVO; MICROTECHNOLOGY; MULTI-CHANNEL MICROELECTRODES;

ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES;

EID: 84920520164     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s150100832     Document Type: Article

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