Neurorehabilitation in chronic paraplegic patients with the HAL® exoskeleton – preliminary electrophysiological and fMRI data of a pilot study

Biosystems and Biorobotics

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 611-615

  Sczesny Kaiser, Matthias ^a   Höffken, Oliver ^a   Lissek, Silke ^a   Lenz, Melanie ^a   Schlaffke, Lara ^a   Nicolas, Volkmar ^a   Meindl, Renate ^a   Aach, Mirko ^a   Sankai, Yoshiyuki ^b   Schildhauer, Thomas A ^a   Tegenthoff, Martin ^a   Schwenkreis, Peter ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

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EID: 84977551667     PISSN: 21953562     EISSN: 21953570     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-34546-3_99     Document Type: Chapter

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