Can the Human Lumbar Posterior Columns Be Stimulated by Transcutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation? A Modeling Study

Artificial Organs

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 257-262

  Danner, Simon M ^a   Hofstoetter, Ursula S ^a,b   Ladenbauer, Josef ^c   Rattay, Frank ^a   Minassian, Karen ^a,c  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer modeling; Human; Posterior columns; Transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL ORGANS;

COMPUTER MODELS; HUMAN; LARGE DIAMETER; MODELLING STUDIES; MOTOR CONTROL; POSTERIOR COLUMN; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SPINAL-CORD; TRANSCUTANEOUS; TRANSCUTANEOUS SPINAL CORD STIMULATION;

FIBERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATION AND STIMULATION; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MCINTYRE RICHARDSON GRILL AXON MODEL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; TRUNK;

EID: 79952674353     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2011.01213.x     Document Type: Article

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