Estimation of fiber diameters in the spinal dorsal columns from clinical data

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1355-1362

  Wesselink, Wilbert A ^b   Holsheimer, Jan ^b   Nuttin, Bart ^c   Boom, Herman B K ^a,b   King, Gary W ^d   Gybels, Jan M ^c   De Sutler, Paul ^c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer modeling; Dorsal columns; Fiber diameter; Spinal cord stimulation

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NEUROLOGY; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ELECTRICAL EQUIVALENT CABLE MODEL; FIBER DIAMETER; PARESTHESIA; PERCEPTION THRESHOLD; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SPINAL DORSAL COLUMNS; THREE DIMENSIONAL VOLUME CONDUCTOR MODEL;

FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION;

ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; COMPUTER MODEL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CONDUCTION; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE FIBERS; PARESTHESIA; PILOT PROJECTS; SPINAL CORD; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0032211576     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.725332     Document Type: Article

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