Title : 
Motor function rebuilding of limbs based on communication principle and electronic system
         
        
            Author : 
Zhi-Gong Wang ; Xiaoying Lu ; Yang Xia ; Weyuan Li ; Zonghao Huang ; Yuxuan Zhou ; Xiaoyan Shen ; Xintai Zhao ; Jingdong Yang ; Suyang Wang ; Ming Ma ; Bilei Wang
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Inst. of RF- & OE-ICs, Southeast Univ., Nanjing, China
         
        
        
            fDate : 
Aug. 28 2012-Sept. 1 2012
         
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
In this paper, we report our novel idea on the function rebuilding for hemiplegic limbs and the primary experiments. The main concept is to connect the control-lost nerves or neuromuscular junctions by using a multi-channel micro- electronic neural bridge (MENB), regenerate the nervous signal, and rebuild the motor functions of the related limb. Since the injured nervous system in stroke-related hemiplegia is located in the brain and difficult to be identified and operate on, we use another nervous system functioning as a new signal source to supply similar neural signals. In these cases, that means, two independent nervous systems are connected by a MENB. As preclinical experiments, we have made a series of tests on bodies of animals and healthy human. The principle, the system construction and the experimental results will be given.
         
        
            Keywords : 
biomedical electronics; brain; electromyography; integrated circuits; medical signal detection; medical signal processing; neuromuscular stimulation; patient rehabilitation; EMG signals; MENB; brain; communication principle; control-lost nerves; electronic system; healthy human; hemiplegic limbs; injured nervous system; motor function rebuilding; multichannel microelectronic neural bridge; neuromuscular junctions; stroke-related hemiplegia; Animals; Communication systems; Educational institutions; Electrodes; Humans; Spinal cord; Animals; Anura; Electric Stimulation Therapy; Extremities; Hemiplegia; Humans; Male; Microelectrodes; Models, Neurological; Nerve Regeneration; Neurons; Synaptic Transmission;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2012 Annual International Conference of the IEEE
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
San Diego, CA
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-4119-8
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
1557-170X
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346063