Reduced spatial focality of electrical field in tDCS with ring electrodes due to tissue anisotropy

2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2053-2056

  Suh, Hyun Sang ^a   Lee, Won Hee ^b   Cho, Young Sun ^a   Kim, Ji Hwan ^a   Kim, Tae Seong ^a  

^a Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC CONDUCTIVITY; EFFECTIVE STIMULATION; ELECTRICAL FIELD; FINITE ELEMENTS; HEAD MODEL; HIGH RESOLUTION; INDUCED ELECTRICAL FIELD; RING ELECTRODES; WHITE MATTER;

ELECTRODES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TISSUE;

ANISOTROPY;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEAD; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 78650801790     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5626502     Document Type: Conference Paper

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