Useful applications and limits of battery powered implants in functional electrical stimulations

Artificial Organs

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 210-212

  Lanmuller H ^a   Bijak, M ^a   Mayr, W ^a   Rafolt, D ^a   Sauermann, S ^a   Thoma, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

battery powered implants; functional electrical stimulation; phrenic pacing

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC BATTERIES; QUALITY CONTROL;

BATTERY POWERED; BATTERY POWERED IMPLANT; ERROR RATE; EXTERNAL CONTROL; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRI-CAL STIMULATIONS; IMPLANTABLE STIMULATORS; PHRENIC PACING; POWER UNITS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION;

ARTICLE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; IMPLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

EID: 0030989414     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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