TY - GEN
T1 - A multi-shank silk-backed parylene neural probe for reliable chronic recording
AU - Wu, Fan
AU - Tien, Lee
AU - Chen, Fujun
AU - Kaplan, David
AU - Berke, Joshua
AU - Yoon, Euisik
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Many chronic brain implants would benefit from a neural probe with many densely configured electrodes with stable recording quality. We present a novel strategy to scale up the number of electrodes with minimized risk of proportionally increasing the adverse foreign body reactions. A flexible parylene probe having 64 electrodes has been designed and fabricated with unique geometries for reduced tissue reactions. Biocompatible silk fibroin was patterned to provide a biodegradable mechanical support of the flexible probe during insertion. We validated the design with in vivo recording in rats and observed no significant deterioration in recording quality for over 5 weeks.
AB - Many chronic brain implants would benefit from a neural probe with many densely configured electrodes with stable recording quality. We present a novel strategy to scale up the number of electrodes with minimized risk of proportionally increasing the adverse foreign body reactions. A flexible parylene probe having 64 electrodes has been designed and fabricated with unique geometries for reduced tissue reactions. Biocompatible silk fibroin was patterned to provide a biodegradable mechanical support of the flexible probe during insertion. We validated the design with in vivo recording in rats and observed no significant deterioration in recording quality for over 5 weeks.
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U2 - 10.1109/Transducers.2013.6626910
DO - 10.1109/Transducers.2013.6626910
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84891672258
SN - 9781467359818
T3 - 2013 Transducers and Eurosensors XXVII: The 17th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, TRANSDUCERS and EUROSENSORS 2013
SP - 888
EP - 891
BT - 2013 Transducers and Eurosensors XXVII
T2 - 2013 17th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, TRANSDUCERS and EUROSENSORS 2013
Y2 - 16 June 2013 through 20 June 2013
ER -