Feasibility of a Wireless Implantable Multi-electrode System for High-bandwidth Prosthetic Interfacing: Animal and Cadaver Study

Abstract

In our study, the MIRA provided high-bandwidth prosthetic interfacing through intramuscular electrode sites. Its high number of individual EMG channels may be combined with signal decoding algorithms for accessing spinal motor neuron activity after targeted muscle reinnervation, thus providing numerous degrees of freedom. Together with recent innovations in amputation surgery, the MIRA might enable improved control approaches for upper limb amputees, particularly for patients with above-elbow amputation where the mismatch between available control signals and necessary degrees of freedom for prosthetic control is highest.