Medical & biological engineering & computing
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Med Biol Eng Comput · May 1995
Neuromuscular stimulation selectivity of multiple-contact nerve cuff electrode arrays.
The feasibility of an electrical stimulation method selectively for activating skeletal muscles innervated by a common peripheral nerve trunk has been investigated. The method utilises 'snugly' fitting nerve cuffs that incorporate an array of 12 electrodes. ⋯ On a rabbit sciatic nerve, a combination of adjacent longitudinal tripoles of the 12 electrode array generally yields a stimulation performance similar to that which would be expected if a 24 electrode array is used. This system may find a use in functional neuromuscular stimulation applications which require highly selective control over multiple muscles.