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Implantable neural electrode

  • US 3,955,560 A
  • Filed: 06/10/1974
  • Issued: 05/11/1976
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/10/1974
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. The method of establishing individual connections between a series of electrical conductors and a series of excitable animal fibers, said method comprising the steps of providing a series of passageways in an implant unit of a material that is a non-conductor of electricity and biologically inert, each passageway dimensioned to permit at least one fiber to regenerate therein, providing conductors having electrodes and exposing each electrode in the appropriate one of said passageways, cutting the nerve or muscle containing said fiber to an extent such that the series thereof are severed, and placing the passageways in the cut in a position in which each fiber will regenerate in an appropriate one of them and thus form a connection with the electrode exposed therein.

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