Abstract
Currently, electrophysiologists have state-of-the-art equipment enabling corrections of unwanted electrical signals. Unfortunately, this comes at a cost as many parameters that adjust for capacitance, resistance, or bandwidths are done so without any knowledge as to why or how they work. To overcome this, chapter explains many different aspects of amplifier function, including data acquisition frequency, gain, compensation, leak subtraction, filtering, and troubleshooting noise. With such knowledge, accurate measurements of cellular excitability can be collected, thus appropriately advancing our knowledge of cellular function.
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Graziane, N., Dong, Y. (2022). Amplifiers. In: Graziane, N., Dong, Y. (eds) Electrophysiological Analysis of Synaptic Transmission. Neuromethods, vol 187. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-2589-7_3
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