Fully implantable multi-channel measurement system for acquisition of muscle activity

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1972-1981

  Lewis, Soren ^a   Russold, Michael ^a   Dietl, Hans ^a   Ruff, Roman ^b   Audí, Josep Marcel Cardona ^b   Hoffmann, Klaus Peter ^b   Abu Saleh, Lait ^c   Schroeder, Dietmar ^c   Krautschneider, Wolfgang H ^c   Westendorff, Stephanie ^d   Gail, Alexander ^d   Meiners, Thomas ^e   Kaniusas, Eugenijus ^f  

^a Otto Bock HealthCare GmbH   (Austria)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^c HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^e Center for Spinal Cord Injuries at Werner Wicker Hospital   (Germany)

^f VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Electrode encapsulation; feature selection; impedance; implanted electrode; intramuscular electromyogram (EMG); movement classification

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMYOGRAM; ENCAPSULATION PROCESS; GOAL-DIRECTED ARM MOVEMENT; IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; IMPLANTED ELECTRODES; MULTICHANNEL MEASUREMENT; RELIABLE RECOGNITION; TIME AND FREQUENCY DOMAINS;

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEATURE EXTRACTION;

MEASUREMENTS;

EID: 84879035199     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2013.2253992     Document Type: Article

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