Electric fields in hippocampus due to transcranial focal electrical stimulation via concentric ring electrodes

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5488-5491

  Besio, Walter G ^a   Hadidi, Ruba ^a   Makeyev, Oleksandr ^a   Luna Munguía, Hiram ^b   Rocha, Luisa ^b  

^a The University of Rhode Island   (United States)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR ELECTRODES; CONCENTRIC RINGS; ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS; STAINLESS STEEL WIRES; TRANSCRANIAL; TRANSCRANIAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS; WORLD POPULATION;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODES; WIRE;

STAINLESS STEEL;

EID: 84055189910     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091400     Document Type: Conference Paper

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