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. 2017 Nov 22;6:e30552. doi: 10.7554/eLife.30552

Figure 4. Low-noise miniature coaxial cable attenuates vibration artifacts.

Figure 4.

(A) A schematic illustration of the 36-gauge low-noise miniature coaxial cable. A semiconducting layer of graphite is added between the braided shield and the dielectric of the cable to drain triboelectric charges, rendering the cable insensitive to vibration. (B) An example of vibration artifacts recorded under the standard EEP conditions (x2000 using our TMS-EEP amplifier; 1.5 MΩ microelectrode pair; Ag/AgCl ground electrode; normal miniature coaxial cable) in a saline bath after induction and electric field coupling artifacts were suppressed. The vibration artifacts can manifest in multiple types of waveform, depending on the parts of the recording assembly that are perturbed and the resonance properties of these parts. (C) The implementation of low-noise miniature coaxial cables attenuated the vibrational artifacts. Signal recorded under conditions identical to those in (B) except the cables.