ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2017
A 3D Computational Model of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation for Estimating Aβ Tactile Nerve Fiber Excitability.
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- An Efficient Multi-Channel Electrotactile Parameter Configuration Method for Personalized Teleoperation.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Frequency shaping of tactile perception via transcutaneous interferential electrical stimulation: a simulation study.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- Virtual tactile feedback technology based on microcurrent stimulation: current status, challenges and future prospects.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Review
- The interplay between pulse width and activation depth in TENS: a computational study.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Augmented Transcutaneous Stimulation Using an Injectable Electrode: A Computational Study.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2021Article
- Tutorial: a computational framework for the design and optimization of peripheral neural interfaces.Nature protocols · 2020Review
- High-Resolution Multi-Scale Computational Model for Non-Invasive Cervical Vagus Nerve Stimulation.Neuromodulation : journal of the International Neuromodulation Society · 2018Review
- High-resolution computational modeling of the current flow in the outer ear during transcutaneous auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation (taVNS).Brain stimulationArticle
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Abstract
Tactile sensory feedback plays an important role in our daily life. Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) is widely accepted to produce artificial tactile sensation. To explore the underlying mechanism of tactile sensation under TENS, this paper presented a novel 3D TENS computational model including an active Aβ tactile nerve fiber (TNF) model and a forearm finite element model with the fine-layered skin structure. The conduction velocity vs. fiber diameter and strength-duration relationships in this combined TENS model matched well with experimental data. Based on this validated TENS model, threshold current variation were further investigated under different stimulating electrode sizes with varied fiber diameters. The computational results showed that the threshold current intensity increased with electrode size, and larger nerve fibers were recruited at lower current intensities. These results were comparable to our psychophysical experimental data from six healthy subjects. This novel 3D TENS model would further guide the floorplan of the surface electrodes, and the stimulating paradigms for tactile sensory feedback.
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