Title :
A new implantable tomography approach to bladder volume monitoring
Author :
Provost, Benoit ; Sawan, Mohamad
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Ecole Polytech. de Montreal, Que., Canada
Abstract :
This paper describes a new implantable bladder volume monitoring device based on the tomography approach. The system is completely autonomous and forms a mixed-signal (analog/digital) feedback loop to command the bladder functions (incontinence and retention) through neuromuscular stimulation techniques. A programmable preamplifier and a model for bladder impedance have been designed and tested
Keywords :
biomedical equipment; electric impedance imaging; muscle; neurophysiology; patient monitoring; volume measurement; analog/digital feedback loop; bladder functions command; bladder impedance model; completely autonomous system; incontinence; medical instrumentation; mixed-signal feedback loop; neuromuscular stimulation techniques; programmable preamplifier; urinary retention; Bladder; Communication system control; Computerized monitoring; Electrodes; Impedance measurement; Preamplifiers; Signal generators; Signal processing; Tomography; Volume measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1995., IEEE 17th Annual Conference
Conference_Location :
Montreal, Que.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2475-7
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1995.579869
