Electrode assembly design for transcranial Direct Current Stimulation: A FEM modeling study

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 891-895

  Kronberg, Greg ^a   Bikson, Marom ^a  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; CURRENT FLOW DENSITY; DIRECT CURRENT; EDGE CONCENTRATIONS; ELECTRODE ASSEMBLIES; ELECTRODE DESIGN; ELECTRODE PLACEMENT; ELECTRODE SIZE; FEM MODELING; FEM SIMULATIONS; GENERAL PATTERNS; INTEGRATED DESIGNS; METAL ELECTRODES; SKIN BURN; SKIN SURFACES; SOLUTION SALINITY; TRANSCRANIAL;

ASSEMBLY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

DESIGN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84881077100     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346075     Document Type: Conference Paper

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