Functional monitoring of peripheral nerves from electrical impedance measurements. 2016

Alexandre Fouchard, and Véronique Coizet, and Valérie Sinniger, and Didier Clarençon, and Karin Pernet-Gallay, and Stéphane Bonnet, and Olivier David
CEA-LETI, MINATEC Campus, F-38000 Grenoble, France; Univ Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble Institut des Neurosciences, GIN, F-38000 Grenoble, France; Inserm, U1216, F-38000 Grenoble, France.

Medical electrical stimulators adapted to peripheral nerves use multicontact cuff electrodes (MCC) to provide selective neural interfaces. However, neuroprostheses are currently limited by their inability to locate the regions of interest to focus. Intended until now either for stimulation or recording, MCC can also be used as a means of transduction to characterize the nerve by impedancemetry. In this study, we investigate the feasibility of using electrical impedance (EI) measurements as an in vivo functional nerve monitoring technique. The monitoring paradigm includes the synchronized recording of both the evoked endogenous activity as compound action potentials (CAP) and the superimposed sine signal from the EI probe. Measurements were conducted on the sciatic nerve of rodents, chosen for its branchings towards the peroneal and tibial nerves, with both mono- and multi-contact per section electrodes. During stimulation phases, recordings showed CAP with consistent fiber conduction velocities. During coupled phases of both stimulation and sine perturbation, impedance variations were extracted using the mono-contact electrode type for certain frequencies, e.g. 2.941kHz, and were temporally coherent with the previous recorded CAP. Using a MCC, localized evoked CAP were also recorded but the signal to noise ratio (SNR) was too low to distinguish the expected associated impedance variation and deduce an image of impedance spatial changes within the nerve. The conducted in vivo measurements allowed to distinguish both evoked CAP and associated impedance variations with a strong temporal correlation. This indicates the feasibility of functional EI monitoring, aiming at detecting the impedance variations in relation to neural activity. Further work is needed to improve the in vivo system, namely in terms of SNR, and to integrate new multicontact devices in order to move towards EI tomography with the detection of spatially-localized impedance variations. Eventually, regions that are interesting to be targeted by stimulation could be identified through these means.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D000200 Action Potentials Abrupt changes in the membrane potential that sweep along the CELL MEMBRANE of excitable cells in response to excitation stimuli. Spike Potentials,Nerve Impulses,Action Potential,Impulse, Nerve,Impulses, Nerve,Nerve Impulse,Potential, Action,Potential, Spike,Potentials, Action,Potentials, Spike,Spike Potential
D000818 Animals Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA. Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D012377 Rodentia A mammalian order which consists of 29 families and many genera. Beavers,Capybaras,Castor Beaver,Dipodidae,Hydrochaeris,Jerboas,Rodents,Beaver,Capybara,Hydrochaeri,Jerboa,Rodent,Rodentias
D012584 Sciatic Nerve A nerve which originates in the lumbar and sacral spinal cord (L4 to S3) and supplies motor and sensory innervation to the lower extremity. The sciatic nerve, which is the main continuation of the sacral plexus, is the largest nerve in the body. It has two major branches, the TIBIAL NERVE and the PERONEAL NERVE. Nerve, Sciatic,Nerves, Sciatic,Sciatic Nerves
D014054 Tomography Imaging methods that result in sharp images of objects located on a chosen plane and blurred images located above or below the plane. Tomographies
D017097 Electric Impedance The resistance to the flow of either alternating or direct electrical current. Bioelectrical Impedance,Electric Resistance,Impedance,Ohmic Resistance,Biolectric Impedance,Electrical Impedance,Electrical Resistance,Impedance, Bioelectrical,Impedance, Biolectric,Impedance, Electric,Impedance, Electrical,Ohmic Resistances,Resistance, Electric,Resistance, Electrical,Resistance, Ohmic,Resistances, Ohmic

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