Restoration of blink in facial paralysis patients using FES

2009 4th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, NER '09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 76-79

  McDonnall, Daniel ^a   Guillory, K Shane ^a   Gossman, M Douglas ^b  

^a Ripple LLC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blink prosthesis; Facial paralysis; FES

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION THRESHOLDS; BLINK PROSTHESIS; CONSTANT VOLTAGE; ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS; FACIAL PARALYSIS; FES; MUSCLE ACTIVATION; ORBICULARIS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; STIMULATION ELECTRODES; TRANSCUTANEOUS;

COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; MUSCLE; PROSTHETICS;

FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION;

EID: 70350238368     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NER.2009.5109238     Document Type: Conference Paper

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