Shape-memory polymer coated electrodes
AssigneeThe Regents of the University of Colorado
InventorsDudley Finch, Kenneth Gall, Andrew Sharp, Diego Restrepo
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Abstract
There is provided a slowly implantable electrode. A coating for an electrode, the coating includes a shape-memory polymer. A method for inserting an electrode into brain tissue by inserting an implantable electrode having a shape-memory polymer coated electrode into brain tissue.
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A method for inserting an electrode into tissue by inserting a slowly implantable electrode comprising a share-memory polymer coated electrode capable of being slowly implanted into brain tissue.
A method of minimizing trauma and astrocytic scarring by slowly inserting a slowly implantable electrode comprising a share-memory polymer coated electrode capable of being slowly implanted into body tissue, thereby minimizing trauma and astrocytic scarring.
A method of minimizing trauma and astrocytic scarring by slowly inserting a slowly implantable electrode comprising a shape-memory polymer coated electrode and having a therapeutic coating into body tissue and allowing the body to absorb the therapeutic coating to minimize trauma and astrocytic scarring.
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