Transient calculation of the induced currents inside the brain during magnetic stimulation

COMPEL - The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 910-921

  Barchanski, A ^a   Gjonaj, E ^a   De Gersem, H ^b   Weiland, T ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Electric current; Electromagnetism; Parallel programming

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETISM; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; TRANSIENTS;

CONDUCTIVITY DISPERSION; TIME HARMONIC; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION TREATMENT;

ELECTRIC CURRENTS;

EID: 34547311215     PISSN: 03321649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03321640710751316     Document Type: Article

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