Magnetic stimulation of the spine: The role of tissues and their modelling

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2541-2553

  Efthimiadis, K G ^a   Samaras, T ^a   Polyzoidis, K S ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b AHEPA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; DISPLACEMENT CURRENTS; INDUCED ELECTRIC FIELDS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISCS; MAGNETIC STIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODELLING; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES; SHIELDING EFFECT; SPINAL CORDS;

DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRIC FIELDS;

HISTOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HUMAN; INNERVATION; MAGNETOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPINE; TIME;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC FIELD THERAPY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77951183897     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/9/008     Document Type: Article

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