Comparison of current distributions between electric and magnetic stimulation for treatment of urinary incontinence using a computer model

Author

Odagaki, Masato ; Suga, Kazutaka ; Sasaki, Tadashi ; Cohen, David ; Hosaka, Hidehiro

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

23-26 Oct. 2002

Abstract

Summary form only given. It is reported that magnetic stimulation has good efficacy in treating urinary incontinence. Magnetic stimulation has two main advantages over electrical stimulation: it can be applied without removal of clothes, and it involves little pain. However, the distribution of current in the living body is not clearly known. We therefore attempted to make a computer simulation model of the female abdomen, and to simulate the distribution of induced current on the basis of the tissue conductivity. This report compares electrical with magnetic stimulation, and finally considers which method of stimulation is the more efficient.

Keywords

bioelectric phenomena; biomagnetism; current distribution; digital simulation; gynaecology; physiological models; computer model; computer simulation model; current distribution; female abdomen; induced current distribution; living body; magnetic stimulation; urinary incontinence treatment; Abdomen; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Conductivity; Current distribution; Distributed computing; Electrical stimulation; Magnetic stimulation; Pain;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2002. 24th Annual Conference and the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society EMBS/BMES Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the Second Joint

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7612-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2002.1053180

Filename

1053180