Simulation studies of ultrashort, high-intensity electric pulse induced action potential block in whole-animal nerves

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1391-1398

  Joshi, Ravindra P ^a,b   Mishra, Ashutosh ^a   Song, Jiahui ^a   Pakhomov, Andrei G ^b   Schoenbach, Karl H ^a,b  

^a Old Dominion University   (United States)

^b Frank Reidy Research Centre for Bioelectrics   (United States)

Author keywords

Action potential (AP) block; Electroporation; High voltage pulse; Myelinated nerve simulation; Rat model

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; NEUROLOGY; RATS; ULTRASHORT PULSES; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ACTION POTENTIAL (AP) BLOCK; ELECTROPORATION; HIGH VOLTAGE PULSE; MYELINATED NERVE SIMULATION;

NEURONS;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROPORATION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RAT; SIMULATION; VOLUMETRY; WAVEFORM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE BLOCK; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 41149108475     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.912424     Document Type: Article

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