Implantable Neural Prostheses 2: Techniques and Engineering Approaches

✍ Scribed by Ken Stokes (auth.), David Zhou, Elias Greenbaum (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 386
• Series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book and its companion volume describe state-of-the-art advances in techniques associated with implantable neural prosthetic devices and their applications. They offer researchers, engineers, clinicians, students and any specialists in this field a deeper understanding of the neural prosthetic techniques currently available for a wide range of biomedical applications.

In part two of this two-volume sequence, Implantable Neural Prostheses: Techniques and Engineering Approaches, the focus is on general techniques, platforms, and engineering approaches in research and development. Coverage includes biocompatibility, electrode materials and testing, electrochemical techniques for neural stimulation applications, thin-film electrode arrays, hermetic and thin-film packaging, and microelectronics for recording, stimulation and wireless telemetry. Also discussed is the design process in the development of medical devices.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
The Biocompatibility and Biostability of New Cardiovascular Materials and Devices....Pages 1-26
Technology Advances and Challenges in Hermetic Packaging for Implantable Medical Devices....Pages 27-61
Science and Technology of Bio-Inert Thin Films as Hermetic-Encapsulating Coatings for Implantable Biomedical Devices: Application to Implantable Microchip in the Eye for the Artificial Retina....Pages 63-84
The Electrochemistry of Charge Injection at the Electrode/Tissue Interface....Pages 85-138
In Situ Characterization of Stimulating Microelectrode Arrays: Study of an Idealized Structure Based on Argus II Retinal implants....Pages 139-156
Thin-Film Microelectrode Arrays for Biomedical Applications....Pages 157-190
Stimulation Electrode Materials and Electrochemical Testing Methods....Pages 191-216
Conducting Polymers in Neural Stimulation Applications....Pages 217-252
Microelectronics of Recording, Stimulation, and Wireless Telemetry for Neuroprosthetics: Design and Optimization....Pages 253-330
Microchip-Embedded Capacitors for Implantable Neural Stimulators....Pages 331-344
An Effective Design Process for the Successful Development of Medical Devices....Pages 345-359
Back Matter....Pages 1-13

✦ Subjects

Biomedical Engineering;Biophysics and Biological Physics;Neurosciences;Biomaterials