Title :
Notice of Retraction
A Wearable System for Epidural Spinal Cord Stimulation in Freely Moving Rats
Author :
Hui Zhou ; Qi Xu ; Jiping He ; Hangkong Ren ; Houlun Zhou ; Kejia Zheng
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Control Sci. & Eng., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China
Abstract :
Notice of Retraction
After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.
We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.
The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.
This paper describes a wearable stimulating system to investigate the effects of epidural spinal cord stimulation (ESCS) on the improvement of locomotion performance in rats with incomplete spinal cord injury (ISO). The preliminary experiment was conducted in a 240 g Sprague Dawley rat. With different spinal cord stimulation intensities, the EMG signal was recorded from hindlimb using needle recording electrode in rats under anesthesia. It is shown that the proposed stimulating system is available for the chronic stimulation in the ISCI rodent model to investigate the mechanism of ESCS on the improvement of locomotion performance for ISCI patients.
Keywords :
biomechanics; electromyography; injuries; medical disorders; medical signal processing; neuromuscular stimulation; patient rehabilitation; physiological models; prosthetics; EMG signal recording; ISCI rodent model; Sprague Dawley rat; epidural spinal cord stimulation; incomplete spinal cord injury; locomotion performance; movement disorders; needle recording electrode; spinal cord stimulation intensity; wearable system; Batteries; Electrical stimulation; Electrodes; Electromyography; Muscles; Pulse generation; Rats;
Conference_Titel :
Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering, (iCBBE) 2011 5th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5088-6
DOI :
10.1109/icbbe.2011.5780282
