On the Nature and Elimination of Stimulus Artifact in Nerve Signals Evoked and Recorded Using Surface Electrodes

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn BME-29, Issue 2, 1982, Pages 129-137

  Megill, Kevin C ^a   Cummins, Kenneth L ^b   Dorfman, Leslie J ^c   Berlizot, Bruno B ^a,d   Luetkemeyer, Kelly ^a,e   Nishimura, Dwight G ^a   Widrow, Bernard ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Services Informatiques Logiciels et Etudes Silo ^*  (France)

^e NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS; DIGITAL COMPUTER; ELECTROSTIMULATOR; HUMAN CELL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; COMPUTERS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; PERIPHERAL NERVES;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT - ELECTRODES;

ACTION POTENTIALS; STIMULUS ARTIFACTS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0019999736     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.1982.325019     Document Type: Article

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