Influence of electrode impedance on threshold voltage for transcranial electrical stimulation in motor evoked potential monitoring

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 557-561

  Journée, Henricus Louis ^a   Polak, H E ^a   de Kleuver, M ^a  

^a Inst for Spine Surg and Appl Res   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brain; Impedance; Motor evoked potentials; Safety; Threshold monitoring; Transcranial electrical stimulation

Indexed keywords

BRAINSTEM; ELECTRODE IMPEDANCE; TRANSCRANIAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION (TES);

CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRODES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPEDANCE; MONITORING; RELIABILITY;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINE;

EID: 4444254259     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02350999     Document Type: Article

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