Title :
Live demonstration: Transverse stimulation or artefact?
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Theor. Phys., Univ. of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany
Abstract :
Electric properties of the human tongue are experimentally compared with the properties of a purely ohmic resistor. The tongue shows short and strong displacement currents near voltage steps, which are not present in case of the ohmic resistor. They are not artefacts.
Keywords :
bioelectric phenomena; biological organs; biomedical measurement; equivalent circuits; resistors; artefact; electric properties; human tongue; live demonstration; purely ohmic resistor; short displacement currents; strong displacement currents; transverse stimulation; Biomembranes; Current measurement; Dielectrics; Permittivity; Resistors; Tongue; Voltage measurement; electric stimulation; neurostimulation; transverse stimulation;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Lausanne
DOI :
10.1109/BioCAS.2014.6981682
