• DocumentCode
    2749766
  • Title

    Neuron mid-infrared absorption study for direct optical excitation of neurons

  • Author

    Guo, Dingkai ; Chen, Xing ; Vadala, Shilpa ; Leach, Jennie ; Choa, Fow-Sen

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng., UMBC, Baltimore, MD, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    9-13 Oct. 2011
  • Firstpage
    491
  • Lastpage
    492
  • Abstract
    Neuron optical excitations are important for brain-circuitry explorations and sensory-neuron-stimulation applications. To optimize the stimulation, we identify neuron mid-IR absorption peaks in this study and discuss their meanings and delivery methods of mid-IR photons.
  • Keywords
    absorption coefficients; brain; neurophysiology; photons; brain-circuitry explorations; direct optical excitation; mid-IR photons; neuron midinfrared absorption; neuron optical excitations; sensory-neuron-stimulation applications; Absorption; Biomedical optical imaging; Neurons; Optical pulses; Optical sensors; Quantum cascade lasers; Stimulated emission;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (PHO), 2011 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Arlington, VA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8940-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PHO.2011.6110641
  • Filename
    6110641