A compact wireless multi-channel system for real-time intracortical microstimulation of behaving rodents

Author

Angotzi, Gian Nicola ; Boi, F. ; Zordan, S. ; Vato, Alessandro

Author_Institution

Dept. of Robot., Fondazione Ist. Italiano di Tecnol., Genova, Italy

fYear

2013

fDate

6-8 Nov. 2013

Firstpage

1009

Lastpage

1012

Abstract

In this paper we present a compact wireless 8-channels stimulating system specifically designed to deliver patterns of electrical stimuli into the cortex of freely behaving small laboratory animals. The stimuli are designed as trains of bi-phasic current pulses with programmable duration, frequency and amplitude using a LabVIEW based graphical user interface. The reduced weight of the stimulation control unit and the possibility to directly connect it to a behavioral box, makes the system suitable to be worn by rodents while performing behavioral experiments.

Keywords

bioelectric phenomena; brain; graphical user interfaces; medical computing; neurophysiology; virtual instrumentation; wireless channels; LabVIEW based graphical user interface; behaving rodents; biphasic current pulse train; compact wireless 8-channel stimulating system; compact wireless multichannel system; cortex; electrical stimuli; freely behaving small laboratory animals; programmable duration; real-time intracortical microstimulation; stimulation control unit; Electrical stimulation; Electrodes; Graphical user interfaces; Rodents; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Neural Engineering (NER), 2013 6th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1948-3546

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NER.2013.6696107

Filename

6696107