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IN THE NAME OF ALLAH
THE MOST BENEFICENT THE MOST MERCIFUL
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ECE 4552:
MEDICAL
ELECTRONICS
LECTURE:
ELECTRO-MYO
GRAM (EMG)
Engr. Ijlal Haider
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Electrical Engineering Dept.
University of Lahore, Lahore
TYPES OF NERVES
Sensory Nerves
Nerves that carry information from sensory parts to
the brain
Motor Nerves
Nerves that carry information from brain to
actuating parts
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TYPES OF NERVES
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MOTOR UNITS
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ELECTROMYOGRAM
Greek words
MYOS-Muscle
GRAM-Picture
Picture of Electrical Activities of Muscles
STIMULUS
Voluntary (under willful action of brain)
Not good for diagnosis of muscle disorders which has
to be diagnosed early
Impulses travel in only one direction
Evoked (on artificial stimulation)
Impulses travel in both directions
EMG
Using Skin Surface electrodes
Using Needle electrodes
Monopolar
Bipolar
MEASUREMENT OF POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE
How do we get a potential difference between two
points outside a muscle fiber (or a nerve fiber??)
When Fully Polarized!!
Partially Depolarized!!
Fully Depolarized!!
MEASUREMENT OF POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE
When there is partially depolarization, ionic
current start flowing which gives rise to voltage
In case of fully polarized or fully depolarized, no
current flows and hence we don’t get any voltage
out
SKIN SURFACE ELECTRODES
Compound or composite of Muscle Action
Potential from individual muscle fibers is
recorded
Sometime called Interference Pattern
Contribution from muscle fibers will depend on
the closeness and proximity to the electrodes
We cannot make out much on the origin of these
signals
We can only use it to find gross muscular
disorders
Which can already be felt by muscle weakness and
can be visually seen as wasted muscle
SKIN SURFACE ELECTRODES
Surface electrodes are not very much used for the
diagnosis of muscle disorders
They are used majorly for evoked potential study
in
Nerve Conduction Velocity (NCV) measurement
Physiotherapy or exercise (kind of mitigation or
relaxing)
Another application is Bio-feedback for stroke
recovery
NEEDLE ELECTRODES
Monopolar
Similar to a coaxial
We use instrumentation (differential) amplifiers
Requires 3 probes
Active, Reference, Common
Common is taken from a skin surface electrode
NEEDLE ELECTRODES
Bipolar
In contrast to mono-polar electrodes, bipolar have
two electrodes inside and one outside
Instrument amplifiers are used
All three probes are taken from the bipolar needle
electrode itself
Mostly used for research purpose
NEEDLE EMG
Used for diagnosis of muscle disorders
Helps in localizing a focus of disorder
As injecting a pin (needle) inside skin is painful
and to diagnose properly multiple points are
needed, the whole process becomes very painful
To reduce pain, insertion points are reduced and
in each points the angle of pin is changed without
bringing needle outside the skin (mostly 3 angles)
ANALYSIS OF EMG
Analysis is done empirically by doctors (clinical
experiences)
Looks for EMG patterns when the needle is being
inserted
Listens to the sound produced by feeding the
muscle signal into a loud speaker
Also looks at the pattern and listens to the sound
on mild voluntary contraction
ANALYSIS OF EMG
Signal Processing in EMG
For automated diagnosis, pattern recognition
techniques are being investigated
Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms and other
AI techniques are/can be used
Old instruments used to have integrators
ANALYSIS OF EMG
Simple Block Diagram of EMG
EMG Amplifiers
Filter
Display
Signal processing unit/ Intelligent Systems
Audio amplifier
MEASUREMENT OF NCV
Using evoked potential
Through artificial stimulation of nerve
For example by giving a voltage of 100 volts for
very short time approximately 2 msec, hand
movements must be observed
--fig. evoking an action potential using surface
electrodes
EVOKED POTENTIAL
Nothing happens under anode (+ve electrode)
Reversal of trans-membrane potential occurs
under cathode (-ve electrode)
This causes generation of an action potential
Generated action potential travels along the
nerves in both directions
MEASUREMENT OF NCV
Similar to a sprint race where a stopwatch is
pressed on when runner starts and time is
recorded untill he reaches the finish line and
velocity is calculated from the distance travelled
and time, NCV is recoded by measuring the time
for nerve action potential to travel a distance “d”
from stimulation point to recording point
SENSORY NCV
Nerve stimulator applies stimulation through
ring electrodes at fingers
Median Nerve contains both sensory and motor
nerves
Recording site is selected near middle of arm
SENSORY NCV
Conventions
Cathode of the stimulation electrodes is kept
near the recording side, so that action potential is
not perturbed by anode)
Recording electrode which is towards the
stimulation side is connected to the inverting
input of the amplifier
Common electrode is placed ideally at an
equidistant point from both electrodes (to have
min common mode voltage)
SENSORY NCV
--fig. stimulation pulse
--fig. recording side, stimulation artifacts and
compounded action potential
Latency of the pulse is recorded
SNVC=d/∆t
MOTOR NCV
In contrast to SNCV measurement, MNCV
measurement involves stimulating at two sites
and recording at one
For median nerve
Stimulation sites
Wrist
Elbow
Recording site
Thenar Muscle
MOTOR NCV
Why we stimulate on two sites?
Neuromuscular junction has unknown delay
Record latencies of proximal and distal
stimulation sites individually (let t1 and t2 be the
latencies of both respectively)
Distance between both stimulation sites is taken
--fig. MNVC signals
MNCV=d/(t2-t1)
DIAGNOSIS AND DISEASES
If either SNCV or MNCV is significantly less
then normal values?
Is the distal latency prolonged?
DIAGNOSIS AND DISEASES
Causes of low NCV
Demyelination
Conduction block
Axonopathy
DIAGNOSIS AND DISEASES
Disorders
Peripheral Neurotherapy
Carpel Tunnel Syndrome (Wrist)
GB Syndrome
Cervical Spondylosis (Neck)
Lumbo-Sacral Spondylosis (Waist)
EMG FOR PROSTHESIS
EMG signals are used to study the electrical
activities of muscles under certain movements
EMG signals are picked up from certain points
and fed to the prosthetic limb or exoskeleton
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NERVE STIMULATOR
For a single pulse: Monostable Multi-vibrator
For repetitive pulses: Astable Multi-vibrator
Amplitude required: 100-200 volts
Pulse duration: less then 2msec
Peak current requirement near to 20 mA (max 50
mA)
Power requirement (for peak power 300x50mA)
COMMONLY MEASURED
Upper limb, Median, Ulnar, Radial, Lower Limb,
Common Peroneal, Tibial
Class Activity
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THANK YOU!
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