A Preliminary Study for Integrated System of FES and FUS

― Control Test and In Vivo Experiment of Integrated System ―

抄録

Over the few decades, rehabilitation methods such as rehabilitation robot, electrical stimulation and non-invasive brain stimulation have shown to be alternative to traditional rehabilitation therapy which rely heavily on therapists. On the other hand, there have been a lack of research on integrating each element to create an integrated system. In this study, we conducted an initial study on the integrated system that could simultaneously utilize muscle activation induced by focused ultrasound (FUS) exposed to brain and direct muscle activation stimulated by functional electrical stimulation (FES). Whether a latency is compensated and integrated system stimulate targeted muscle is tested through experiments. As a result, we validated the effectiveness of the integrated system.