Localized electrical nerve blocking

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 362-370

  Williamson, Richard P ^a   Andrews, Brian J ^b  

^a ST JUDE MEDICAL   (United States)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axon stimulation; Computer modeling; Electrical nerve blocking; in vivo trials

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

AXONS; LOCALIZED ELECTRICAL NERVE BLOCKING; SINOSOIDAL FREQUENCY; TRANSMISSION BLOCK;

NEUROLOGY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE BLOCK; NEURAL CONDUCTION; RATS; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 14844318626     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2004.842790     Document Type: Article

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