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This chapter introduces the reader to the concept of neural stimulation and electrical neural stimulation in particular. It shortly discusses various types of stimulation and the possible clinical applications. It then illustrates the technological challenges for the design of neural stimulator based on a case study of a spinal cord stimulator. Several of these challenges will be addressed in the subsequent chapters of which an overview is given at the end of this chapter.
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van Dongen, M., Serdijn, W. (2016). Introduction. In: Design of Efficient and Safe Neural Stimulators. Analog Circuits and Signal Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28131-5_1
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