Title :
A model of the entrainment of gastric electrical activity by electrical stimulation
Author :
Familoni, Babajide ; Abell, Thomas ; Prem, Suresh ; Moolchandani, Sunil ; Voeller, Guy ; Gan, Zhao
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Memphis Univ., TN, USA
fDate :
31 Oct-3 Nov 1996
Abstract :
Even though there has been an interest in employing pacemaker therapy for gastric motor dysfunction for about 40 years, gastric electrical stimulation (GES) is yet to move beyond laboratory experimentation. GES at near physiologic frequencies have been employed in dog and man with mixed results in eliciting native electrical control activity entrainment. There is also disagreement on its efficacy in enhancing gastric motility. Experimental determination of the optimum frequency is tedious. Technically, there is an infinite number of frequencies to test. The current study involved the development of a Matlab-based analytic model of gastric electrical stimulation GES
Keywords :
bioelectric phenomena; biology computing; medical computing; muscle; patient treatment; physiological models; Matlab-based analytic model; computer simulation; electrical control activity entrainment; electrical stimulation; gastric electrical activity entrainment; gastric motility; gastric motor dysfunction; pacemaker therapy; rule-based algorithm; Biomedical engineering; Chemicals; Electrical stimulation; Frequency; Gallium nitride; Mathematical model; Medical treatment; Pacemakers; Space vector pulse width modulation; Surgery;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1996. Bridging Disciplines for Biomedicine. Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Amsterdam
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3811-1
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1996.656975
