Development of a multi-electrode electrical stimulation device to improve chronic wound healing

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2145-2148

  Weber, Sonja A ^a   Vonhoff, Philipp A ^a   Owens, Francis J ^a   Byrne, J Anthony ^a   McAdams, Eric T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT DES NANOTECHNOLOGIES DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HVDC POWER TRANSMISSION;

COMPOSITE ELECTRODE; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE; ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; MULTI-ELECTRODE; PULSE DURATIONS; PULSED CURRENTS; SKIN TEMPERATURES;

ELECTRODES;

EID: 77950981218     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333963     Document Type: Conference Paper

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