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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 11.
Published in final edited form as: Electron Commun Jpn. 2009 Jul;92(7):29–37. doi: 10.1002/ecj.10058

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Schema of intravascular neural interface.

(A) A saline flow from a branch pipe introduces nanowires into an artery and the blood flow carries nanowires to a capillary close to a nerve. (B) (i) A microcatheter is made of polyimide tube with a 90 to 300-μm diameter. In the microcatheter, each nanowire has a wire connection extending through the branch pipe and syringe to external devices. (ii) The nanowire has a platinum black tip as an electrode interface and a polymer insulation layer along the entire wire.