Electrode-tissue impedance measurement CMOS ASIC for functional electrical stimulation neuroprostheses

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2043-2050

  Uranga, Arantxa ^a   Sacristán, Jordi ^b   Osés, Teresa ^b   Barniol, Núria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) analog integrated circuits; Electrode tissue impedance; Functional electrical stimulation (FES); Impedance measurement circuits

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRODES; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHETICS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ELECTRODE-TISSUE IMPEDANCE; IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT CIRCUITS; NEUROPROSTHESES;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 34648840598     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2007.904479     Document Type: Article

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