A novel array-type transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) system for accurate focusing on targeted brain areas

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 882-885

  Park, Ji Hye ^a,b   Hong, Seung Bong ^c   Kim, Do Won ^a,b   Suh, Minah ^d   Im, Chang Hwan ^a  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University Wonju   (South Korea)

^c Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^d Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic brain stimulation; finite element method (FEM); transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

3D FINITE ELEMENT METHOD (FEM); BRAIN STIMULATION; CONSTRAINED OPTIMI-ZATION PROBLEMS; CURRENT DENSITY DISTRIBUTION; DIRECT CURRENT; FIELD CONCENTRATIONS; REALISTIC HEAD MODELS; SUPERPOSITION PRINCIPLE;

BRAIN;

EID: 79955535303     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2010.2072987     Document Type: Article

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