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Pasteless electrode for clinical use

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The design and construction of a clinically useful electrode for detecting the myoelectric signal is described. The requirements of the design were determined by a set of properties defined by clinicians and research engineers experienced in myoelectric signal detection. A novel, and seemingly useful, feature of this electrode is that the stainless-steel cans of two junction field-effect transistors are used as the recording surface while the same j.f.e.t.s. operate as the front end of a differential preamplifier. The electrode requires no paste or gel. In addition to its use as a stationary unit, it may be used as a probe to quickly and conveniently explore the myoelectric signals from many muscles.

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  1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, 02115, Boston, MA, USA

    C. J. De Luca, R. S. Le Fever & F. B. Stulen

  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    C. J. De Luca, R. S. Le Fever & F. B. Stulen

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  1. C. J. De Luca
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De Luca, C.J., Le Fever, R.S. & Stulen, F.B. Pasteless electrode for clinical use. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 17, 387–390 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02443828

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