Toroidal coil design for percutaneous magnetic stimulation of bladder

Author

Carbunaru, Rafael ; Durand, Dominique M.

Author_Institution

Appl. Neural Control Lab., Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH, USA

Volume

5

fYear

1997

fDate

1997

Firstpage

2094

Abstract

A toroidal coil design for percutaneous magnetic stimulation of the bladder is presented. The toroidal coil is submerged in a material with similar conductivity to that of the body in order to reduce the boundary surface effects. This design generates electric fields perpendicular to the skin, offers good localization of the stimulated area, and drastically reduces the current requirements for magnetic stimulation. This stimulation method is a non faradaic alternative to surface electrical stimulation

Keywords

biological organs; biomagnetism; biomedical equipment; coils; patient treatment; skin; bladder; boundary surface effects reduction; conductivity; medical instrumentation; nonfaradaic alternative; percutaneous magnetic stimulation; stimulation method; surface electrical stimulation; toroidal coil design; Bladder; Boundary conditions; Coils; Conducting materials; Conductivity; Electrical stimulation; Magnetic cores; Magnetic stimulation; Permeability; Skin;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1997. Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4262-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1997.758764

Filename

758764