Cortical neural excitations in rats in vivo with using a prototype of a wireless multi-channel microstimulation system

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2015 Aug:2015:1642-5. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2015.7318690.

Abstract

Understanding neural responses to multi-site electrical stimuli would be of essential importance for developing cortical neural prostheses. In order to provide a tool for such studies in experimental animals, we recently constructed a prototype of a wireless multi-channel microstimulation system, consisting of a stimulator chip, wireless data/power transmitters and receivers, and microcomputers. The proper operations of the system in cortical neural excitations were examined in anesthetized rats in vivo, with utilizing the voltage-sensitive dye imaging technique.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Electric Stimulation*
  • Electrocardiography
  • Electrodes, Implanted
  • Heart Rate / physiology
  • Microcomputers
  • Neural Prostheses*
  • Neurons / physiology*
  • Rats
  • Rats, Long-Evans
  • Voltage-Sensitive Dye Imaging
  • Wireless Technology