Distribution of electrical stimulation current in a planar multilayer anisotropic tissue

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 660-670

  Mesin, Luca ^a   Merletti, Roberto ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electrical stimulation; Interferential therapy; Stimulus artefact

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; NEURONS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ANISOTROPIC TISSUE; ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; INTERFERENTIAL THERAPY; NEUROMUSCULAR STIMULATION; STIMULUS ARTEFACT;

TISSUE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONDUCTOR; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISPERSION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; SKIN SURFACE; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 38349064985     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.902248     Document Type: Article

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