A time domain finite element model of extracellular neural stimulation predicts that non-rectangular stimulus waveforms may offer safety benefits

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2768-2771

  Cantrell, Donald R ^a   Troy, John B ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORROSION; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROTHERAPEUTICS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PLATINUM; TISSUE;

CURRENT DENSITY DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRODE-ELECTROLYTE INTERFACES; ELECTROLYTE IMPEDANCE; INTERFACIAL IMPEDANCE; LARGE CURRENT DENSITY; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; STIMULATING ELECTRODES; THIN-LAYER APPROXIMATION;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ELECTROLYTE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; METHODOLOGY; MICROELECTRODE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROLYTES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MICROELECTRODES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 61849146958     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649776     Document Type: Conference Paper

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