Numerical investigation of white matter anisotropic conductivity in defining current distribution under tDCS

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 48-64

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brain modeling; Brain stimulation; Tissue conductivity; Transcranial direct current stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC CONDUCTIVITY; BRAIN STIMULATION; CONDUCTIVITY DISTRIBUTIONS; CONDUCTIVITY ESTIMATION; CURRENT DENSITY DISTRIBUTION; CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; CURRENT FLOWS; DIFFUSION TENSOR; DIRECT CURRENT; DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS; HEAD MODEL; HIGH ANISOTROPY; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; STIMULATING ELECTRODES; TISSUE CONDUCTIVITY; TOPOGRAPHIC CHANGES; TRANSCRANIAL; VOLUME CONSTRAINT; WHITE MATTER;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN MODELS; CURRENT DENSITY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TENSORS; TISSUE;

ANISOTROPY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONDUCTANCE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DENSITY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTRODE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GRAY MATTER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; WHITE MATTER;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS;

EID: 84869866572     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: 18727565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2012.09.001     Document Type: Article

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