Here are some publications relating to our work in skeletal muscle cardiac assist:

• Selective Stimulation of Latissimus Dorsi Muscle for Cardiac Assist. DR Thompson, JJ Michele, EA Cheever, DT George,  Annals of BME, Vol 27, pp .48-55, 1999.
• A Microprocessor-Based Multiple-Lead Muscle Stimulator for Skeletal Muscle Cardiac Assist EA Cheever, WP Santamore, DT George. IEEE Trans BME, BME-45:1, 56-68, 1998.
• Muscle-to-Cardiac Timing for Aortomyoplasty, DT George, DR Thompson, EA Cheever, AS Geha, BL Cmolik, 1997 IFESS conference.
• Optimizing Muscle-to-Cardiac Timing in Aortomyoplasty, DR Thompson, BL Cmolik, EA Cheever, AS Geha, DT George, 34th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium, Dayton, Ohio, April, 1997
• Beneficial Effects of Aortomyoplasty are Maintained Following Chronic Muscle Conditioning, BL Cmolik, DR Thompson, EA Cheever, AS Geha, and DT George, 5th World Congress on Heart, 1997.
• Optimizing Muscle Wrap Orientations for Aortomyoplasty AL Rovner, BL Cmolik, DR Thompson, EA Cheever, AS Geha, DT George. Proceedings of the 15th Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference, Dayton, OH, pp513-515, 1996,.
• Three Skeletal Muscle Wrap Orientations for Aortomyoplasty BL Cmolik, DR Thompson, AL Rovner, EA Cheever, AS Geha, DT George. 1996 meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery
• A Microprocessor-Based Multi-Channel Muscle Stimulator for Skeletal Muscle Cardiac Assist, EA Cheever, JR Birge*, DR Thompson, WP Santamore, DT George, Proceeding of the 17th IEEE EMBS Conference, Montreal, pp 147-148, 1995.

See my c.v. for a more complete list of publications.

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