Muscle surface recording and stimulation using integrated PDMS-based microelectrode arrays: Recording-triggered stimulation for prosthetic purposes

Author

Guo, Liang ; Kitashima, Laura J. ; Villari, Craig R. ; Klein, Adam M. ; DeWeerth, Stephen P.

Author_Institution

Wallace H. Coulter Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

26-28 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

101

Lastpage

104

Abstract

With our recent advances in polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) based conformable microelectrode array (MEA) technologies, numerous exciting prosthetic applications involving neural/muscular surface recording and/or stimulation techniques become more accessible. As a pilot investigation, in this paper, we explore the general concept of recording-triggered surface stimulation, which may find instances in many prostheses that involve a synchronization or synergetic control strategy, using a PCB-integrated PDMS-based dual-MEA. A frog dual-muscle setup was used as a model system for the concept. Contraction synchronization between the two muscles was successfully demonstrated. Our future plan involves adapting current work to the development of a prosthesis for unilateral vocal cord paralysis (UVCP).

Keywords

biomedical electrodes; microelectrodes; neuromuscular stimulation; polymers; prosthetics; contraction synchronization; integrated microelectrode arrays; muscle surface recording; muscle surface stimulation; polydimethylsiloxane; prosthetics; recording triggered stimulation; unilateral vocal cord paralysis; Biological materials; Biological tissues; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical materials; Fabrication; Inorganic materials; Microelectrodes; Muscles; Neural prosthesis; Prosthetics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, 2009. BioCAS 2009. IEEE

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4917-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4918-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BIOCAS.2009.5372075

Filename

5372075