Modeling of an Active Nerve Fiber in a Finite Volume Conductor and Its Application to the Calculation of Surface Action Potentials

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn BME-26, Issue 1, 1979, Pages 53-56

  Barker, A T ^a   Brown, B H ^a   Freeston, I L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS - APPLICATIONS;

SURFACE ACTION POTENTIALS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0018330923     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.1979.326479     Document Type: Article

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