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Modeling the frequency dependence of the electrical properties of the live human skull

Chi Tang1, Fusheng You1, Guang Cheng2, Dakuan Gao2, Feng Fu1 and Xiuzhen Dong1,3

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An accurate impedance model of a skull plays an important role in the simulation research on source localization of EEG and brain EIT (electrical impedance tomography), etc. On the basis of the large number of impedance and resistivity data obtained from our previous measurement on the live human skull, in this study we established the equivalent circuit models of six types of skull samples in the 30 Hz–3 MHz frequency range and analyzed the fitting performance of the models. The six types of skull samples are standard tri-layer, quasi-tri-layer, standard compact, quasi-compact, dentate suture and squamous suture. The results showed that the difference of the real part between the CPE (constant phase model) model and the measured data was less than 1% for all skull tissue types when the optimized characteristic parameters (ρ0, ρ, α and fc) were adopted in the model. It is the first time studying the impedance model of different types of skulls, and it may provide accurate modeling of the skull to improve the accuracy of the related research on bioelectricity of the head and the biological effects of the electromagnetic field.


PACS

87.80.-y Biophysical techniques (research methods)

87.50.C- Static and low-frequency electric and magnetic fields effects

87.19.R- Mechanical and electrical properties of tissues and organs

87.19.L- Neuroscience

Subjects

Instrumentation and measurement

Medical physics

Biological physics

Dates

Issue 12 (December 2009)

Received 6 February 2009, accepted for publication 17 September 2009

Published 20 October 2009



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