Abstract

We present a method for decreasing the duration of artifacts present during intra-cortical microstimulation recordings by using techniques developed for digital communications. We replace the traditional monophasic or biphasic current stimulation pulse with a patterned pulse stream produced by a Zero Forcing Equalizer filter after characterizing the artifact as a communications channel. The results find that using the ZFE stimulus has the potential to reduce artifact width by more than 70%. Considerations for the hardware implementation of the equalizer are presented.