Effect of anode-cathode configuration on paresthesia coverage in spinal cord stimulation

Neurosurgery

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 654-660

  Holsheimer, Jan ^a   Wesselink, Wilbert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anode cathode configuration; Dorsal column stimulation; Multiple electrodes; Single electrode; Spinal cord stimulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; DORSAL ROOT; ELECTRODE; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ORIENTATION; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE GENERATOR; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EPIDURAL SPACE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0030868743     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199709000-00030     Document Type: Article

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