Cardiac cycle-synchronized electrical muscle stimulator for lower limb training with the potential to reduce the heart's pumping workload

• Ken-ichiro Sasaki ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: sasaken@med.kurume-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4906-2443

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• Hiroo Matsuse,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation, Kurume University Hospital, Kurume, Japan

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• Ryuji Akimoto,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Homerion Laboratory CO., LTD, Tokyo, Japan

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• Shiro Kamiya,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Homerion Laboratory CO., LTD, Tokyo, Japan

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• Toshio Moritani,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Applied Physiology, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan

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• Motoki Sasaki,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan

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• Yuta Ishizaki,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan

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• Masanori Ohtsuka,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan

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• Takaharu Nakayoshi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan

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• Takafumi Ueno,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan

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• Naoto Shiba,

  Roles Validation

  Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation, Kurume University Hospital, Kurume, Japan

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• Yoshihiro Fukumoto

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume, Japan

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