PMID-20577628[0] Seven years of recording from monkey cortex with a chronically implanted multiple electrode.
- Seven years!! good recordings the whole time, too. As they say, this is a clinically realistic time period. Have they solved the problem?
- Used 12.5um Ni-Cr-Al wire insulated with 3um of polymide.
- Wires were then glued to an 8x8 connector block using conductive epoxy.
- Glued the bundle together with a solution of plexiglas in dichloroethane.
- Then introduced the 0.3mm bundle into a j-shaped cannula. This allowed them to approach the gray matter inverted, from below (the white matter).
- implanted 64 ch array into ventral premotor cortex (arm representation?).
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- No apparent degradation of recording quality over that time.
- Had some serious problems with the quality of their connector.
- They recommend: "Rather, the contacts on the head should be made from noble metals and be flat or shallowly hollow, so that they can be easily cleaned, and no male contacts can break."
- Really need to amplify and multiplex prior connector (imho).
- Claim that them managed to record from two neurons on one channel for nearly 7 years (ch 54).
- They cite us, but only to indicate that we recommend slow penetration of the brain. They agree with our results that lowering of individual electrodes is better than all at once.
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[0] Kruger J, Caruana F, Volta RD, Rizzolatti G, Seven years of recording from monkey cortex with a chronically implanted multiple microelectrode.Front Neuroengineering 3 Issue 6 (2010 May 28) |
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