Design and testing of an instrumentation system to reduce stimulus pulse amplitude requirements during FES

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2764-2767

  Willand, Michael P ^a   De Bruin, Hubert ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION;

CONSTANT CURRENT; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; INSTRUMENTATION SYSTEMS; MUSCLE ACTIVATION; PULSE AMPLITUDE; PULSE-TRAIN CONTROLS; RECENT RESEARCHES; SURFACE ELECTRODE;

MUSCLE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ALGORITHM; AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE; OSCILLOMETRY; PAIN; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; COMPUTERS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLES; OSCILLOMETRY; PAIN; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 61849167584     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649775     Document Type: Conference Paper

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