Micro Cuff Electrode Manufacture for Vagus Nerve Monitoring in Rats
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Cerda, Javier Chavez; Acedo Reina, Elena; Stumpp, Lars; Raffoul, Romain; Perre, Louis Vande; Diaz Cortes, Macarena; Doguet, Pascal; Delbeke, Jean; Tahry, Riem El; Nonclercq, Antoine
- Source
- 2022 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS) Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), 2022 IEEE. :434-438 Oct, 2022
- Subject
- Bioengineering
Electrodes
Manufacturing processes
Wires
Platinum
Surgery
Rats
Recording
micro cuff electrode
manufacture
vagus nerve
monitoring
- Language
This work describes the fabrication of a lab-made cuff electrode intended for rat vagus nerve electroneurography. The cuff electrode is built around 50 µm platinum wires contacts in tripolar configuration, 4mm contact spacing. The body is made of silicone rubber and four surgical threads. In vivo validation allowed to record respiration and cardiac related activity from the vagus nerve. The results show that our electrodes are a suitable low-cost alternative for our preclinical studies.