Abstract
There is great current interest in treating conditions such as epilepsy or arthritis by electrical stimulation of nerves in the body. Unfortunately, this will be limited if there is inadvertent stimulation of nerve fibres leading to organs besides those necessary. We propose development of a new electrode cuff “cartwheel” design that will enable detailed imaging and then selective stimulation of the correct fibres, using the new medical imaging method of fast neural Electrical Impedance Tomography. We seek to improve the spatial resolution and penetration depth of electrical impedance tomography (EIT) using a customizable electrode size, geometry, charge injection and placement.
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