• DocumentCode
    1214768
  • Title

    Potential Field from an Active Nerve in an Inhomogeneous, Anisotropic Volume Conductor - The Forward Problem

  • Author

    Wilson, Owen B. ; Clark, John W., Jr. ; Ganapathy, Nirmala ; Harman, T.L.

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Electrical Engineering, Rice University
  • Issue
    12
  • fYear
    1985
  • Firstpage
    1032
  • Lastpage
    1041
  • Abstract
    This paper presents an analytic method for determining the potential distribution within an idealized cylindrical limb that contains an active nerve trunk. The limb also contains a major inhomogeneity (a bone) and skeletal muscle, both of which are assumed to be anisotropic.
  • Keywords
    Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Bioelectric phenomena; Bones; Boundary value problems; Conductors; Electric potential; Filters; Geometry; Muscles; Nonuniform electric fields;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9294
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TBME.1985.325512
  • Filename
    4121992