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A Rugged, Reliable and Sterilizable Microelectrode for recording Single Units from the Brain

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METAL microelectrodes suitable for recording externally from single cells have been reported by various authors1–7. None of them meets our requirements for a rugged and reliable microelectrode which can be heat- or gas-sterilized for use in human neurosurgical procedures.

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  1. Collège de France, Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie Générale, Station de l'Institut Marey, 4 Avenue Gordon-Bennett, Paris, 16e

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MARG, E. A Rugged, Reliable and Sterilizable Microelectrode for recording Single Units from the Brain. Nature 202, 601–603 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/202601a0

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