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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2003. Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7789-3
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2003.1280981
