Effects of electroconvulsive therapy stimulus pulsewidth and amplitude computed with an anatomically-realistic head model

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2559-2562

  Bai, Siwei ^a   Loo, Colleen ^b   Dokos, Socrates ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b ST GEORGE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN REGIONS; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FINITE ELEMENT; HEAD MODEL; HIGH RESOLUTION; HUMAN HEAD MODEL; MRI SCAN; PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS; PULSEWIDTHS; SPATIAL EXTENT; TISSUE HETEROGENEITY; TREATMENT TECHNIQUES;

ELECTROTHERAPEUTICS; TISSUE;

BRAIN;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HEAD; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY;

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HEAD; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC;

EID: 84882937268     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346486     Document Type: Conference Paper

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