Comparison of cephalic and extracephalic montages for transcranial direct current stimulation-a numerical study

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2488-2498

  Noetscher, Gregory M ^a   Yanamadala, Janakinadh ^a   Makarov, Sergey N ^a   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^b  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

In vivo current density; transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; ELECTRODES; GROUNDING ELECTRODES;

DIRECT CURRENT; HORIZONTAL CURRENTS; IN-VIVO; IN-VIVO MEASUREMENT; LOCAL CURRENT DENSITY; NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

CURRENT DENSITY;

ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CEPHALIC MONTAGE PLACEMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXTRACEPHALIC MONTAGE PLACEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROLOGICAL AND SENSORIAL PROCEDURES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SIMULATION; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SKULL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; VOLUMETRY; WHITE MATTER; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEVICES; HEAD; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; THORAX;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRODES; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; THORAX; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 84906545892     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2014.2322774     Document Type: Article

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