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Computational Modeling of Magnetic Stimulation of Spinal Cord: Neuromodulation for Neurogenic Bladder
Dixit, Hemangi Rajendrakumar
Dutta, Anirban
Biomedical Engineering
biomedical engineering
M.S.
Neurogenic bladder is the condition in which a person lacks bladder control due to brain, nerve or spinal cord function. A person with spinal cord injury cannot urinate at will and may need a catheterization to empty the bladder. We hypothesized that neuro-modulation of the spinal cord using transcutaneous magnetic stimulation would guide these patients to allow voluntary micturition and eliminate the need for catheterization. Transcutaneous magnetic stimulation (TMS) is non-invasive, painless and safe which has been used to modulate neuronal function in the treatment of various disorders. TMS depends on time-varying magnetic fields to induce an electric field. In the current research, we used computational modeling for TMS to stimulate the lumbar region of the spinal cord to improve the bladder function. Here we present a fast, versatile, and robust computational approach using the Sim4life Biophysics tool to calculate the electric field induced by differentTMS coils within a spinal cord level of Human Model and calculating the activating function using MATLAB.
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2022-06-21T15:47:15Z
2022-06-21T15:47:15Z
2020
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http://hdl.handle.net/10477/84035
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