Nerve Conduction Transducers

[dik]

Are there any inexpensive transducers readily available that can be used to monitor nerve activity, or lack of? Also are there any devices that can be used to monitor involuntary muscle tremor? The devices would be connected to a Raspberry Pi for recording information... or a PC type of device. Thanks in advance...

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-Dik

 

[btrueblood]

https://bmcbiomedeng.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s42490-019-0022-z

Inexpensive...well, yes, standard pickups (AgCl paste buttons attached to the skin) are fairly cheap. But the signal is noisier than imbedded contacts (ouch!).

 

[dik]

btrueblood... Thanks very much. Do you have an idea of the circuits/devices to measure the output from the pickups?

Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Do you feel any better?

-Dik

 

[btrueblood]

I'm sure you can find it in the literature - from what little I know of the silver chloride pickups, the typical signal is in the 10's to 100's of microvolts. I know they use battery operated devices to measure them, as I wore such a device for a sleep apnea study. You could start below, which was one of the first sites found by googling "ecg circuit", to which google suggested adding arduino...

 

[dik]

Thanks, again...

Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Do you feel any better?

-Dik