Finite Element study of skin and fat delineation in an obese subject for transcranial Direct Current Stimulation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 6587-6590

  Truong, Dennis Q ^a   Magerowski, Greta ^b   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^b   Alonso Alonso, Miguel ^b   Bikson, Marom ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICAL SURFACES; CURRENT PENETRATION; DIRECT CURRENT; EFFECTIVE VOLUME; FE MODEL; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; FINITE-ELEMENT STUDY; NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDER; SHUNTING EFFECT; SPATIAL PROFILES; TRANSCRANIAL;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; THERMOELECTRICITY;

WELL STIMULATION;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SKIN; SKULL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OBESITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKIN; SKULL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84884190595     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6347504     Document Type: Conference Paper

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