COMETS: A MATLAB toolbox for simulating local electric fields generated by transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)

Biomedical Engineering Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 39-46

  Jung, Young Jin ^a   Kim, Jung Hoon ^b   Im, Chang Hwan ^b  

^a The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

COMETS; Electrostatic field; Finite element method (FEM); MATLAB toolbox; Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DATA VISUALIZATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODES; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MATLAB; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

COMETS; CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; DIRECT CURRENT; ELECTRODE CONFIGURATIONS; INTERACTIVE GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE; MATLAB TOOLBOXES; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D);

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; COMPUTATION OF ELECTRIC FIELD DUE TO TRANSCRANIAL CURRENT STIMULATION; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ELECTRIC FIELD; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATLAB; SIMULATION; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 84892887072     PISSN: 20939868     EISSN: 2093985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13534-013-0087-x     Document Type: Article

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