Current-Voltage response during NMES

This dataset corresponds to the research article:

Vargas Luna JL, Krenn M, Cortés Ramírez JA, Mayr W (2015) Dynamic Impedance Model of the Skin-Electrode Interface for Transcutaneous Electrical Stimulation. PLoS One 10: e0125609. Available: http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0125609.

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The data was acquired as described in such article:

“A total of ten measurements sessions were considered. The protocol was approved by the Ethics in Research Committee and the Research Committee of the School of Medicine of the Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico), and conducted according to the principles of the Helsinki Declaration. A total of five neurological-intact volunteers participate in this experiment and all were informed of the experimental procedure, benefits and potential risks of the measurements, and signed an informed consent prior the measurements. The protocol included application of electrical stimulation on both legs of each volunteer. CC and VC stimulation were applied using commercial self-adhesive hydrogel electrodes (SN-50900, Hivox Biotek Inc., Taiwan) of two sizes: 5x10cm (ETD) and 5x5cm (ETC). For both CC and VC stimulation the stimulator output stage STMISOLA (Biopac Systems, Inc., USA) controlled via NI MyDAQ card (National Instruments, Inc., USA) was used. The electrical stimulation was applied to the anterior thigh (anodic electrode proximally) with an inter-electrode distance of 10cm. A custom code was implemented in LabView 2012 (National Instruments, Inc., Ireland) to control both the stimulator and the acquisition of the voltage-current response (sample rate 150kS/s).

The whole protocol was based on charge-balanced biphasic rectangular pulses and consisted of four stages: CC with the bigger electrodes (ETD), VC with ETD, CC with smaller electrodes (ETC) and, VC with ETC. The stimulation sweeps were done at 30,000µs per phase and varied from 1mA or 1V (in steps of 1mA or 1V) up to the pain threshold of the individual subject or the upper current limit of the stimulator (110mA).”