Analysis of fractal electrodes for efficient neural stimulation

Frontiers in Neuroengineering

Volumn , Issue JUNE, 2013, Pages

  Golestanirad, Laleh ^a,b,c   Elahi, Behzad ^d   Molina, Alberto ^c   Mosig, Juan R ^c   Pollo, Claudio ^e   Chen, Robert ^d   Graham, Simon J ^a,b  

^a Canada   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cortical stimulation; Deep brain stimulation (DBS); Electrodes; Epidural spinal cord stimulation; Fractal geometry; Neural stimulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL ACTIVATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MEDIAN NERVE; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 85081782854     PISSN: 16626443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneng.2013.00003     Document Type: Article

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