Influence of coil current configuration in magnetic stimulation of a nerve fiber in inhomogeneous and anisotropic conducting media.

In this study, we used a computer simulation to investigate the effects of the coil current waveform and direction on the excitation processes of the nerve axon in inhomogeneous and anisotropic conducting media in magnetic stimulation. We assumed that the nerve axon was located in the media with 2 regions having different conductivities or electrical anisotropy that simulate different tissue types. The distribution of induced electric fields was calculated with the finite element method (FEM).