Realization of an active book for multichannel intrathecal root stimulation in spinal cord injury Preliminary results

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2965-2968

  Schuettler, Martin ^a   Vanhoestenberghe, Anne ^c   Saeidi, Nooshin ^c   Liu, Xiao ^c   Evans, Joe ^c   Colinge, Cindy ^b   Demosthenous, Andreas ^c   Donaldson, Nick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE ELECTRODES; CAUDA EQUINA; CURRENT SYSTEM; DEGREE OF CONTROL; ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS; INTEGRATED ELECTRONICS; INTRATHECAL; LEG MOVEMENT; LOWER BODY; MULTI-CHANNEL; SPINAL COLUMN; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

CABLES; PATIENT REHABILITATION;

DOSIMETRY;

ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ELECTRODES; HUMANS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84862613073     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090814     Document Type: Conference Paper

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