Efficient calculation of the quasi-static electrical potential on a tetrahedral mesh and its implementation in STEPS

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Hepburn, Iain ^a,b   Cannon, Robert ^c   De Schutter, Erik ^a,b  

^a OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c Textensor Limited   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D electrical potential; Complex morphology; Efficient node ordering; Membrane potential; Multiscale simulation; Spatial stochastic simulation; Tetrahedral meshes

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX MORPHOLOGY; ELECTRICAL POTENTIAL; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MULTI-SCALE SIMULATION; NODE ORDERING; SPATIAL STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS; TETRAHEDRAL MESHES;

GEOMETRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEURAL NETWORKS; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

MORPHOLOGY;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; E FIELD METHOD; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGY; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STEPS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 84884916603     PISSN: 16625188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2013.00129     Document Type: Article

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