Title
A Switched-Capacitor Neural Preaniplifier With An Adjustable Pass-Band For Fast Recovery Following Stimulation
Abstract
For extracellular recordings from neurons, it is desirable to use the same electrode for stimulation as well as for recording. Since neural preamplifiers usually exhibit high-pass filtering at frequencies as low as 0.1 Hz, the recovery from saturation is typically very slow. Consequently, following stimulation, no signal can be detected for up to several seconds. This is unacceptably slow response of the preamplifier because the majority of neurons fires action potentials within first milliseconds following stimulation. Here we propose to use a switched-capacitor preamplifier with adjustable pass-band for fast recovery from saturation caused by stimulation via the recording electrode. The idea was tested in a real preamplitier manufactured with a standard CMOS technolog), (0.35 pro). In control conditions, the high-pass filter was set to 100 Hz and, during stimulation, was shifted to 10 kHz. Such a shift allows the reduction of the recovery time from tens of milliseconds to sub-millisecond range.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260713
2006 28TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY, VOLS 1-15
Keywords
DocType
Volume
high pass filters,action potential,electrode,100 hz,switched capacitor,neurophysiology,recovery time,cmos technology,preamplifiers,high pass filter
Conference
1
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1557-170X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
5
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
R Gusmeroli100.34
Andrea Bonfanti241.56
T Borghi300.34
A S Spinelli400.34
G Baranauskas500.34