Optimizing electrode configuration for electrical impedance measurements of muscle via the finite element method

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1446-1452

  Jafarpoor, Mina ^a   Li, Jia ^a   White, Jacob K ^b   Rutkove, Seward B ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrical impedance; muscle; neuromuscular disease; subcutaneous fat

Indexed keywords

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRODE ARRANGEMENT; ELECTRODE CONFIGURATIONS; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT THICKNESS;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MUSCLE; NEUROMUSCULAR REHABILITATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARM; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE MYOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; MUSCLE; MYOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PARAMETERS; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT;

ANIMALS; ARM; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT;

EID: 84876749688     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2237030     Document Type: Article

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