title: Bidirectional peripheral nerve interface and applications.
abstract: Peripheral nerves, due to their small size and complex innervation to organs and complex physiology, pose particularly significant challenges towards interfacing electrodes and electronics to enable neuromodulation. Here, we present a review of the technology for building such interface, including recording and stimulating electrodes and low power electronics, as well as powering. Of particular advantage to building a miniature implanted device is a "bidirectional" system that both senses from the nerves or surrogate organs and stimulates the nerves to affect the organ function. This review and presentation will cover a range of electrodes, electronics, wireless power and data schemes and system integration, and will end with some examples and applications.
authors.forename: Nitish V
authors.initials: NV
authors.lastname: Thakor
authors.lastname: Qihong Wang
authors.forename: Elliot
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Greenwald
mesh_terms: D004558:Electric Stimulation; D004567:Electrodes, Implanted; D010525:Peripheral Nerves / Q000502:physiology