The effect of anisotropy on the potential distribution in biological tissue and its impact on nerve excitation simulations

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1202-1210

  Szlavik, Robert B ^a,b   De Bruin, Hubert ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Nerve stimulation; Tissue anisotropy; Volume conductor fields

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL CURRENT STIMULATIONS; NERVE EXCITATIONS;

ANISOTROPY; BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MICROELECTRODES; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; TISSUE;

FUNCTIONAL NEURAL STIMULATION;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CONDUCTOR; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOTOR NERVE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE STIMULATION; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE;

ANISOTROPY; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE FIBERS;

EID: 0034283128     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.867947     Document Type: Article

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