• DocumentCode
    2079405
  • 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
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    Aug. 28 2012-Sept. 1 2012
  • Firstpage
    843
  • Lastpage
    846
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2012 Annual International Conference of the IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • ISSN
    1557-170X
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4119-8
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1557-170X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346063
  • Filename
    6346063