Electric fields in bone marrow substructures at power-line frequencies

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1103-1109

  Chiu, Roanna S ^a   Stuchly, Maria A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bone marrow; Contact current; Electric fields; Finite element; Gap junctions; Low frequency; Modeling; Transmembrane potential (TMP)

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; CELLS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TUMORS;

BONE MARROW; LEUKEMIA; STROMA CELLS; TRANSMEMBRANE PRESSURE (TMP);

BONE;

ARTICLE; BONE MARROW; CANCELLOUS BONE; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FILM; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GAP JUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOTHESIS; LEUKEMIA; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; POWER LINE; POWER SUPPLY; SCALAR POTENTIAL FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROMA CELL;

ANIMALS; BONE MARROW CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 20444483755     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2005.846712     Document Type: Article

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