TY - GEN
T1 - Effects of Electrode Configurations and Injected Current Intensity on the Electrical Field of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
T2 - 42nd Annual International Conferences of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2020
AU - MacKenbach, Caroline
AU - Tian, Runfeng
AU - Yang, Yuan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/7
Y1 - 2020/7
N2 - Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a non-invasive brain stimulation technology that modulates the excitability of the brain by delivering weak electric currents to the brain via scalp electrodes. Electrode configuration and injected current intensity are two important parameters in the tDCS design. This simulation study examined three commercially available electrode configurations, i.e. conventional low definition rectangular pad, high-definition Disc, and high-definition 4 x 1 with different electrode distances and different injected current intensity. Simulation results show that increasing the injected current intensity of HD-tDCS mainly increases the electrical field strength for all configurations. Both Disc and 4 x 1 high definition tDCS (HD-tDCS) have better focality than the conventional low-definition rectangular pad. Increasing the inter-electrode distance in HD-tDCS enlarges the electrical field strength and the depth of stimulation but reduces the focality. In motor rehabilitation, a trade-off needs to be made in the tDCS design to allow the electrical field reaching the white matter to facilitate the usage of the cortico-spinal tract without influencing other undesirable regions in the brain.
AB - Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a non-invasive brain stimulation technology that modulates the excitability of the brain by delivering weak electric currents to the brain via scalp electrodes. Electrode configuration and injected current intensity are two important parameters in the tDCS design. This simulation study examined three commercially available electrode configurations, i.e. conventional low definition rectangular pad, high-definition Disc, and high-definition 4 x 1 with different electrode distances and different injected current intensity. Simulation results show that increasing the injected current intensity of HD-tDCS mainly increases the electrical field strength for all configurations. Both Disc and 4 x 1 high definition tDCS (HD-tDCS) have better focality than the conventional low-definition rectangular pad. Increasing the inter-electrode distance in HD-tDCS enlarges the electrical field strength and the depth of stimulation but reduces the focality. In motor rehabilitation, a trade-off needs to be made in the tDCS design to allow the electrical field reaching the white matter to facilitate the usage of the cortico-spinal tract without influencing other undesirable regions in the brain.
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U2 - 10.1109/EMBC44109.2020.9176686
DO - 10.1109/EMBC44109.2020.9176686
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85091024186
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
SP - 3517
EP - 3520
BT - 42nd Annual International Conferences of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 20 July 2020 through 24 July 2020
ER -