Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 31, Issue 9 , Pages 1095-1103 , November 2009

Electric field distribution in a finite-volume head model of deep brain stimulation

Received 22 December 2008 ,Revised 6 July 2009 ,Accepted 7 July 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2009.07.006

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 31, Issue 9 , Pages 1095-1103 , November 2009

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