MRC-glove: A fMRI compatible soft robotic glove for hand rehabilitation application
- 1 August 2015
- conference paper
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015 IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR)
Abstract
In this paper, we present the design, fabrication and preliminary evaluation of a soft robotic glove which can be used with functional Magnetic Resonance imaging (fMRI) during the hand continuous passive motion (CPM) in rehabilitation. The device comprises of two major components: a) soft pneumatic actuators and b) a glove. The soft pneumatic actuators, which are made of silicon elastomers, generate a bending motion and actuate the finger joints upon pressurization. As the device contains no ferromagnetic materials and operates pneumatically, we hypothesize that the device is MR-compatible. Our results show that the device did not cause artifacts to the fMRI images during CPM. This study demonstrated the possibility of using fMRI and MR-compatible soft robotic glove (MRC-Glove) to study motor performances of the brain during CPM rehabilitation and unravel the effects of rehabilitation robotics on brain stimulation.Keywords
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