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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL SYSTEMS AND REHABILITATION ENGINEERING
Volume 15, Issue 1, Pages 76-82Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2007.891383
Keywords
functional electrical stimulation (FES); human subjects; implantable electrodes; nerve electrodes; peripheral nerve; spinal cord injury
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- NINDS NIH HHS [N01-NS-1-2333] Funding Source: Medline
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Testing of the recruitment properties and selective activation capabilities of a multi-contact spiral nerve cuff electrode was performed intraoperatively in 21 human subjects. The study was conducted in two phases. An exploratory phase with ten subjects gave a preliminary overview of the data and data collection process and a systematic phase with eleven subjects provided detailed recruitment properties. The mean stimulation threshold of 25 +/- 17 nC was not significantly different than previous studies in animal models but much lower than muscle electrodes. The selectivity, defined as the percent of total activation of the first muscle recruited before another muscle reached threshold, ranged from 27% to 97% with a mean of 55%. In each case, the muscle that was selectively activated was the first muscle to branch distal to the cuff location. This study serves as a preliminary evaluation of nerve cuff electrodes in humans prior to chronic implant in subjects with high tetraplegia.
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