How to use nerve cuffs to stimulate, record or modulate neural activity

Neural Prostheses for Restoration of Sensory and Motor Function

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 139-175

  Hoffer, Joaquín Andrés ^a   Kallesøe, Klaus ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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