A pipeline for the simulation of transcranial direct current stimulation for realistic human head models using SCIRun/BioMesh3D

Author

Dannhauer, M. ; Brooks, David ; Tucker, David ; MacLeod, R.

Author_Institution

Sci. Comput. & Imaging Inst., Salt Lake City, UT, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

Aug. 28 2012-Sept. 1 2012

Firstpage

5486

Lastpage

5489

Abstract

The current work presents a computational pipeline to simulate transcranial direct current stimulation from image based models of the head with SCIRun [15]. The pipeline contains all the steps necessary to carry out the simulations and is supported by a complete suite of open source software tools: image visualization, segmentation, mesh generation, tDCS electrode generation and efficient tDCS forward simulation.

Keywords

bioelectric phenomena; brain; image segmentation; medical image processing; mesh generation; physiological models; simulation; software tools; BioMesh3D; SCIRun; computational pipeline; image based models; image segmentation; image visualization; mesh generation; open source software tools; realistic human head models; tDCS electrode generation; tDCS forward simulation; transcranial direct current stimulation; Biological system modeling; Brain models; Computational modeling; Electrodes; Finite element methods; Skin; Electrodes; Humans; Models, Biological; Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2012 Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4119-8

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMBC.2012.6347236

Filename

6347236