An active approach for charge balancing in functional electrical stimulation

Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 341-344

  Sooksood, Kriangkrai ^a   Stieglitz, Thomas ^b   Ortmanns, Maurits ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIPHASIC; CHARGE ACCUMULATION; CHARGE BALANCING; CURRENT MISMATCH; ELECTRODE VOLTAGE; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; OFFSET CURRENTS; PLATINUM BLACK; SALINE SOLUTIONS; TISSUE DESTRUCTION; VOLTAGE RANGES;

DISSOLUTION; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION; PLATINUM;

BALANCING;

EID: 70350168551     PISSN: 02714310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5117755     Document Type: Conference Paper

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