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

Volume

1

fYear

1996

fDate

31 Oct-3 Nov 1996

Firstpage

325

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1996.656975

Filename

656975