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Development Of Fast, Distributed Computational Schemes For Full Body Bio-Models And Their Application To Novel Action Potential Block In Nerves Using Ultra-Short, High Intensity Electric Pulses, Ashutosh Mishra

Electrical & Computer Engineering Theses & Dissertations

An extremely robust and novel scheme for computing three-dimensional, time-dependent potential distributions in full body bio-models is proposed, which, to the best of our knowledge, is the first of its kind. This simulation scheme has been developed to employ distributed computation resources, to achieve a parallelized numerical implementation for enhanced speed and memory capability. The other features of the numerical bio-model included in this dissertation research, are the ability to incorporate multiple electrodes of varying shapes and arbitrary locations. The parallel numerical tool also allows for user defined, current or potential stimuli as the excitation input. Using the available computation …