A miniaturized implantable spinal cord microstimulator for treating intractable chronic pain

1st Annual International IEEE-EMBS Special Topic Conference on Microtechnologies in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 630-634

  Mouïne, Jaouhar ^a   Ammar, Khalid Ali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE;

ELECTRICAL PULSE; ELECTRODE ARRAYS; EXTERNAL CONTROL; FULLY PROGRAMMABLES; HARDWARE INTERFACES; MICROSTIMULATORS; PROGRAMMABLE CURRENT; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION;

MIXED SIGNAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0006335178     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MMB.2000.893862     Document Type: Conference Paper

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