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Feasibility of Optoelectronic Neural Stimulation Shown in Sciatic Nerve of Rats  

Kim Eui tae (School of Electrical engineering and Computer science, Nano Bioelectronics and Systems Research Center Seoul National University)
Oh Seung jae (School of Electrical engineering and Computer science, Nano Bioelectronics and Systems Research Center Seoul National University)
Baac Hyoung won (Nano Bioelectronics and Systems Research Center)
Kim Sung june (School of Electrical engineering and Computer science, Nano Bioelectronics and Systems Research Center Seoul National University)
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Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research / v.25, no.6, 2004 , pp. 611-615 More about this Journal
Abstract
A neural prostheses can be designed to permit stimulation of specific sites in the nervous system to restore their functions, lost due to disease or trauma. This study focuses on the feasibility of optoelecronic stimulation into nervous system. Optoelectronic stimulation supplies, power and signal into the implanted optical detector inside the body by optics. It can be effective strategy especially on the retinal prosthesis, because it enables the non-invasive connection between the external source and internal detector through natural optical window 'eye'. Therefore, we designed an effective neural stimulating setup by optically based stimulation. Stimulating on the sciatic nerve of a rat with proper depth probe through optical stimulation needs higher ratio of current spreading through the neural surface, because of high impedance of neural interface. To increase the insertion current spreading into the neuron, we used a parallel low resistance compared to load resistance organic interface and calculated the optimized outer parallel resistance for maximum insertion current with the assumption of limited current by photodiode. Optimized outer parallel resistance was at a range of 500Ω-700Ω and a current was at a level between 580uA and 650uA. Stimulating current efficiency from initial photodiode induced current was between 47.5 and 59.7%. Various amplitude and frequency of the optical stimulation on the sciatic nerve showed the reliable visual tremble, and the action potential was also recorded near the stimulating area. These result demonstrate that optoelectronic stimulation with no bias can be applied to the retinal prosthesis and other neuroprosthetic area.
Keywords
Optoelectronic stimulation; Photodiode; Parallel resistance; Sciatic nerve; Retinal prosthesis;
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