Effects of ramped amplitude waveforms on the onset response of high-frequency mammalian nerve block

Journal of Neural Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 390-398

  Miles, J D ^a   Kilgore, K L ^b,c,d   Bhadra, N ^c   Lahowetz, E A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^d LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAMMALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUROLOGY;

MAMMALIAN NERVE BLOCK; MRG MODEL;

WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ACTION POTENTIAL; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIATHERMY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; WAVEFORM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE BLOCK; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 36949017206     PISSN: 17412560     EISSN: 17412552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/4/4/005     Document Type: Article

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