An SSVEP BCI to control a hand orthosis for persons with tetraplegia

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-5

  Ortner, Rupert ^a   Allison, Brendan Z ^b   Korisek, Gerd ^c   Gaggl, Herbert ^c   Pfurtscheller, Gert ^b  

^a G TEC MEDICAL ENGINEERING GMBH   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c Rehabilitationsklinik Tobelbad ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

Asynchronous braincomputer interface (BCI); hand orthosis control; state visual evoked potentials (SSVEP) based BCI

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION; ASYNCHRONOUS BRAINCOMPUTER INTERFACE (BCI); BRAIN ACTIVITY; FALSE POSITIVE RATES; MOTOR FUNCTION; ORTHOSIS; POSITIVE PREDICTIVE VALUES; STATE VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIALS (SSVEP)-BASED BCI; STEADY STATE VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIALS;

BRAIN; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FLICKERING;

BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HAND; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; ORTHOTICS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUADRIPLEGIA; ROBOTICS; VISUAL CORTEX;

BIOFEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HAND; HUMANS; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; QUADRIPLEGIA; ROBOTICS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 79951592666     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2010.2076364     Document Type: Article

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