Effect of fat and muscle tissue conductivity on cortical currents - A tDCS study

2011 IEEE/ICME International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering, CME 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 211-215

  Shahid, Salman ^a   Wen, Peng ^a   Ahfock, Tony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

cortical modulation; tDCS; tissue conductivity

Indexed keywords

CORTICAL MODULATION; CURRENT DENSITY DISTRIBUTION; CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; EFFECTIVE VOLUME; FAT TISSUE; FINITE ELEMENT; HEAD MODEL; HIGH RESOLUTION; MUSCLE LAYERS; MUSCLE TISSUES; TDCS; TISSUE CONDUCTIVITY;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MUSCLE;

TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 79959966909     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCME.2011.5876735     Document Type: Conference Paper

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