Title :
Potential Field from an Active Nerve in an Inhomogeneous, Anisotropic Volume Conductor - The Forward Problem
Author :
Wilson, Owen B. ; Clark, John W., Jr. ; Ganapathy, Nirmala ; Harman, T.L.
Author_Institution :
Department of Electrical Engineering, Rice University
Abstract :
This paper presents an analytic method for determining the potential distribution within an idealized cylindrical limb that contains an active nerve trunk. The limb also contains a major inhomogeneity (a bone) and skeletal muscle, both of which are assumed to be anisotropic.
Keywords :
Anisotropic magnetoresistance; Bioelectric phenomena; Bones; Boundary value problems; Conductors; Electric potential; Filters; Geometry; Muscles; Nonuniform electric fields;
Journal_Title :
Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TBME.1985.325512
