Recent advances in charge balancing for functional electrical stimulation

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 5518-5521

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES;

CHARGE ACCUMULATION; CHARGE BALANCING; CLOSED LOOPS; ELECTRODE VOLTAGE; FAILURE PROTECTION; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRI-CAL STIMULATIONS; MEAN VALUES; TISSUE DESTRUCTION;

FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION;

EID: 77950999263     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333181     Document Type: Conference Paper

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