A simulation study of the combined thermoelectric extracellular stimulation of the sciatic nerve of the xenopus laevis: The localized transient heat block

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1758-1769

  Mou, Zongxia ^a   Triantis, Iasonas F ^b,c   Woods, Virginia M ^d   Toumazou, Christofer ^d   Nikolic, Konstantin ^d  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extracellular stimulation; finite element method; heat block; neural engineering; NEURON

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIALS; CUFF ELECTRODE; CURRENT PROFILE; ELECTRIC-FIELD DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRICAL BEHAVIORS; EXTRACELLULAR STIMULATION; FINITE-ELEMENT MODELS; HEAT BLOCKS; LOCAL TEMPERATURE; LOCALIZED TEMPERATURE INCREASE; LOW POWER; MAIN EFFECT; MYELINATED NERVES; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE TISSUE; NEURAL ENGINEERING; NEURON MODEL; PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENTAL DATA; SCIATIC NERVES; SIMULATION STUDIES; TRANSIENT HEAT; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NEURONS; TISSUE;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTRIC FIELD; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER; MOTOR NERVE BLOCK; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; SCIATIC NERVE; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HOT TEMPERATURE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE BLOCK; NEURAL CONDUCTION; SCIATIC NERVE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 84861379607     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2194146     Document Type: Article

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