Modelling extracellular electrical stimulation: IV. Effect of the cellular composition of neural tissue on its spatio-temporal filtering properties

OBJECTIVE The objective of this paper is to present a concrete application of the cellular composite model for calculating the membrane potential, described in an accompanying paper. APPROACH A composite model that is used to determine the membrane potential for both longitudinal and transverse modes of stimulation is demonstrated. MAIN RESULTS Two extreme limits of the model, near-field and far-field for an electrode close to or distant from a neuron, respectively, are derived in this paper. Results for typical neural tissue are compared using the composite, near-field and far-field models as well as the standard isotropic volume conductor model. The self-consistency of the composite model, its spatial profile response and the extracellular potential time behaviour are presented. The magnitudes of the longitudinal and transverse components for different values of electrode-neurite separations are compared. SIGNIFICANCE The unique features of the composite model and its simplified versions can be used to accurately estimate the spatio-temporal response of neural tissue to extracellular electrical stimulation.

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