Intramembrane cavitation as a predictive bio-piezoelectric mechanism for ultrasonic brain stimulation

Physical Review X

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Plaksin, Michael ^a   Shoham, Shy ^a   Kimmel, Eitan ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Biological physics; Computational physics

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; CAVITATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; NEURONS; PIEZOELECTRICITY;

BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS; MEMBRANE CAPACITANCES; STIMULATION PARAMETERS; TRANSDUCTION MECHANISM; ULTRASONIC STIMULATIONS; ULTRASOUND-INDUCED CAVITATION;

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 84900337650     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.4.011004     Document Type: Article

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