Staggered transverse tripoles with quadripolar lateral anodes using percutaneous and surgical leads in spinal cord stimulation

Neurosurgery

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 483-491

  Sankarasubramanian, Vishwanath ^a   Buitenweg, Jan R ^a   Holsheimer, Jan ^a   Veltink, Peter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Paresthesia; Percutaneous leads; Spinal cord stimulation; Surgical leads; Transverse tripole; Usage range

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTER MODEL; CONDUCTOR; DURA MATER; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRODE; EPIDURAL SPACE; GRAY MATTER; PERCUTANEOUS LEAD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; SURGICAL LEAD; THORACIC SPINE; WHITE MATTER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; LOW BACK PAIN; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE FIBERS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PARESTHESIA; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; SOFTWARE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 84874384004     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31827d0e12     Document Type: Article

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