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Frank Rattay

Frank Rattay

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Neuroscience

D-Index
42
Citations
9499
World Ranking
7552
National Ranking
48

Overview

Frank Rattay is affiliated with TU Wien in Austria and conducts research spanning neuroscience and engineering disciplines. Their work primarily addresses topics related to hearing, cochlear implants, and neural engineering.

The main fields of study associated with Frank Rattay include:

  • Neuroscience
  • Engineering

Within these disciplines, their research extends to several subfields, such as:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Sensory Systems
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Neurology

The core research topics explored by Frank Rattay are:

  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
  • Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
  • Face and Expression Recognition

Frank Rattay has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Amirreza Heshmat
  • Andreas Fellner
  • Sogand Sajedi
  • Cornelia Wenger
  • Anneliese Schrott-Fischer

Their recent publications comprise the following papers:

  • Finite element analysis and three-dimensional reconstruction of tonotopically aligned human auditory fiber pathways: A computational environment for modeling electrical stimulation by a cochlear implant based on micro-CT (2020), Hearing Research
  • Comparison of Bagging and Boosting Ensemble Machine Learning Methods for Face Recognition (2021), Procedia Computer Science
  • A finite element method framework to model extracellular neural stimulation (2022), Journal of Neural Engineering
  • Dendritic Degeneration of Human Auditory Nerve Fibers and Its Impact on the Spiking Pattern Under Regular Conditions and During Cochlear Implant Stimulation (2020), Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Polarity Sensitivity of Human Auditory Nerve Fibers Based on Pulse Shape, Cochlear Implant Stimulation Strategy and Array (2021), Frontiers in Neuroscience

Frank Rattay's work has been published frequently in the following venues:

  • Journal of Neural Engineering
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Hearing Research
  • Procedia Computer Science
  • PLoS ONE

Best Publications

  • Analysis of Models for External Stimulation of Axons

    Frank Rattay

  • The basic mechanism for the electrical stimulation of the nervous system.

    F. Rattay

  • Analysis of models for extracellular fiber stimulation

    F. Rattay

  • Stepping-like movements in humans with complete spinal cord injury induced by epidural stimulation of the lumbar cord: electromyographic study of compound muscle action potentials

    K Minassian;B Jilge;F Rattay;M M Pinter

  • Electrical Nerve Stimulation

    Frank Rattay

  • Posterior root–muscle reflexes elicited by transcutaneous stimulation of the human lumbosacral cord

    Karen Minassian;Ilse Persy;Frank Rattay;Milan R. Dimitrijevic

  • Human lumbar cord circuitries can be activated by extrinsic tonic input to generate locomotor-like activity.

    K. Minassian;I. Persy;F. Rattay;M.M. Pinter

  • A model of the electrically excited human cochlear neuron. I. Contribution of neural substructures to the generation and propagation of spikes

    Frank Rattay;Petra Lutter;Heidi Felix

  • Modeling axon membranes for functional electrical stimulation

    F. Rattay;M. Aberham

  • Normative database of the serotonergic system in healthy subjects using multi-tracer PET

    Markus Savli;Andreas Bauer;Markus Mitterhauser;Yu-Shin Ding

  • Epidural electrical stimulation of posterior structures of the human lumbosacral cord: 2. quantitative analysis by computer modeling.

    F Rattay;K Minassian;Dimitrijevic

  • Stimulation of the Human Lumbar Spinal Cord With Implanted and Surface Electrodes: A Computer Simulation Study

    J Ladenbauer;K Minassian;U S Hofstoetter;M R Dimitrijevic

  • A model of the electrically excited human cochlear neuron. II. Influence of the three-dimensional cochlear structure on neural excitability.

    Frank Rattay;Richardson Naves Leao;Heidi Felix

  • Human spinal locomotor control is based on flexibly organized burst generators.

    Simon M. Danner;Simon M. Danner;Ursula S. Hofstoetter;Brigitta Freundl;Heinrich Binder

  • Can the human lumbar posterior columns be stimulated by transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation? A modeling study.

    Simon M. Danner;Ursula S. Hofstoetter;Ursula S. Hofstoetter;Josef Ladenbauer;Frank Rattay

  • Ways to approximate current-distance relations for electrically stimulated fibers

    Frank Rattay

  • Analysis of the electrical excitation of CNS neurons

    F. Rattay

  • Initiating extension of the lower limbs in subjects with complete spinal cord injury by epidural lumbar cord stimulation

    B. Jilge;K. Minassian;F. Rattay;M. M. Pinter

  • Electrical Nerve Stimulation: Theory, Experiments and Applications

    Frank Rattay

  • Closed-Loop Control of Grasping With a Myoelectric Hand Prosthesis: Which Are the Relevant Feedback Variables for Force Control?

    Andrei Ninu;Strahinja Dosen;Silvia Muceli;Frank Rattay

  • Mechanisms of Electrical Stimulation with Neural Prostheses

    F. Rattay;S. Resatz;P. Lutter;K. Minassian

  • The handbook of brain theory and neural networks

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Kronbichler
Martin Kronbichler University of Salzburg
Stefan Golaszewski
Stefan Golaszewski Paracelsus Medical University
Andreas Hahn
Andreas Hahn University of Giessen
Eugen Trinka
Eugen Trinka Paracelsus Medical University
Dario Farina
Dario Farina Imperial College London
Siegfried Kasper
Siegfried Kasper Medical University of Vienna
Andrew K. Wise
Andrew K. Wise Bionics Institute
Kurt A. Jellinger
Kurt A. Jellinger Medical University of Vienna
Mohamad Sawan
Mohamad Sawan Polytechnique Montréal
Ivan W. Selesnick
Ivan W. Selesnick New York University

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