Predicted current densities in the brain during transcranial electrical stimulation

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1388-1397

  Holdefer, R N ^a   Sadleir, R ^b   Russell, M J ^a,c  

^a Active Diagnostics Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Aaken Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Gardner Wells tongs; Intraoperative monitoring; Motor evoked potentials; tcMEP; Tissue anisotropy

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WHITE MATTER;

ANISOTROPY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROSURGERY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 33744904694     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2006.02.020     Document Type: Article

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