Introduction to electrophysiological methods and instrumentation /
Introduction to Electrophysiological Methods and Instrumentation covers all topics of interest to electrophysiologists, neuroscientists and neurophysiologists, from the reliable penetration of cells, the behaviour and function of the equipment, to the mathematical tools available for analysing data....
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier/Academic Press,
2006.
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I: Electricity.
- Electrical Quantities.
- Components, Unwanted Properties.
- Circuits, Schematics, Kirchoff's Laws.
- Composition of Similar Components; Attenuators.
- Voltage and Current Measurement.
- Composition of Unequal Components: Filters.
- Part II: Electronics.
- Active Elements.
- Vacuum Tubes and Semiconductors.
- Semiconductor Devices.
- Diodes and Transistors.
- Other Semiconductor Types.
- Amplifiers, Gain, Decibels and Saturation.
- Noise, Hum, Interference and Grounding.
- Differential Amplifiers, Block Diagrams.
- Operational Amplifiers, Feedback.
- Electronic Filters.
- Electrophysiological Preamplifiers.
- Power Supplies and Signal Sources.
- Electronic Voltmeters.
- The Cathode Ray Oscilloscope.
- Digital Electronics, Logic.
- A/D and D/A Conversions.
- Computers.
- Part III: Electrochemistry.
- Introduction, Properties of Electrolytes.
- The Metal/Electrolyte Interface.
- Electrokinetic Processes.
- Liquid Junction Potentials.
- Membrane Potentials.
- Electrodes: Practical Aspects.
- Volume Conduction: Electric Fields in Electrolyte Solutions.
- Part IV: Signal Analysis
- Introduction.
- Analysis of Analogue Potentials.
- Analysis of Action Potential Signals.
- Analysis of Nerve Membrane Data.
- Appendices.
- A. Symbols, abbreviations and codes
- B. Symbols for circuit diagrams
- C. Electrical safety in electrophysiological set-ups
- D. The use of CRT monitors in visual experiments.
- E. Complex numbers and complex frequency.
- F. The mathematics of Markov chains.
- G. Recursive (non-causal) filters.
- H. Pseudo code to calculate the macroscopic current and dwell time distributions from a transition matrix.
- J. Referred and recommended literature.