Numerical solution of the potential due to dipole sources in volume conductors with arbitrary geometry and conductivity

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 679-689

  Rosenfeld, Moshe ^a   Tanami, Ronen ^a   Abboud, Shimon ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

BIOLOGICAL VOLUME CONDUCTORS; INTEGRAL CONSERVATION EQUATION;

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONDUCTOR; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HEAD; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SCALP;

EID: 0030200423     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.503175     Document Type: Article

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