DocumentCode
3590937
Title
Peripheral nerve stimulation by gradient switching fields in MRI
Author
So, Poman ; Caputa, Krys ; Stuchly, Maria A.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Victoria Univ., BC, Canada
Volume
4
fYear
2003
Firstpage
3371
Abstract
Heterogeneous model of the human body and scalar potential finite difference method are used to compute electric filed in tissue. This field is compared to the previously obtained thresholds for stimulation of peripheral nerves.
Keywords
biological effects of fields; biological tissues; biomedical MRI; coils; electric fields; finite difference methods; neurophysiology; phantoms; physiological models; MRI; electric filed computation; gradient switching fields; heterogeneous human body model; peripheral nerve stimulation; scalar potential finite difference method; tissue; Biological system modeling; Coils; Computer peripherals; Conductivity; Equations; Finite difference methods; Humans; Magnetic fields; Magnetic resonance imaging; Space vector pulse width modulation;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2003. Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
ISSN
1094-687X
Print_ISBN
0-7803-7789-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IEMBS.2003.1280981
Filename
1280981
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