On cuff imbalance and tripolar ENG amplifier configurations

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 314-320

  Triantis, Iasonas F ^a,b   Demosthenous, Andreas ^a,c,d   Donaldson, Nick ^a,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CAP; Cuff imbalance; EMG; ENG amplifier; Stimulus artifact; Tripolar cuff electrodes

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); NEUROLOGY; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SIGNALING;

ELECTRONEUROGRAM (ENG) RECORDING; INTERFERENCE SIGNALS; QUASI-TRIPOLE; TRIPOLAR CUFF;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ACTION POTENTIAL; AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTRONEUROGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AMPLIFIERS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; RABBITS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIBIAL NERVE;

EID: 13244255262     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2004.840470     Document Type: Article

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