Balanced-pulse Galvanism

Mesmerism, Galvanism and Quackery

A charge-balanced pulse generator for nerve stimulation applications.

Nerve stimulation typically employs charge-balanced current injection with a delay between the cathodal and anodal phases. Typically these waveforms are produced using a microprocessor. However, once appropriate stimulus parameters are chosen, they tend to remain fixed within an application, making computational power unnecessary. In such cases, it would be advantageous to replace the microproc...

Simulation of MREIT using Balanced Steady State Free Precession (b-SSFP) Pulse Sequence

Magnetic resonance electrical impedance tomography (MREIT) utilizes the relation between conductivity and magnetic flux density induced by externally injected current to perform conductivity imaging of body tissues. A spin echo pulse sequence has been predominantly used in MREIT to acquire the z-component Bz of the induced magnetic flux density data from MR phase images. Spin echo based MREIT p...

Balanced SSFP-like steady-state imaging using small-tip fast recovery with a spectral prewinding pulse.

PURPOSE Small-tip fast recovery (STFR) imaging has been proposed recently as a potential alternative to balanced steady-state free precession (bSSFP). STFR relies on a tailored "tip-up" radio-frequency pulse to achieve comparable signal level as bSSFP, but with reduced banding artifacts and transient oscillations, and is compatible with magnetization-preparation pulses. Previous STFR implementa...

Remarks on Distance-Balanced Graphs

Distance-balanced graphs are introduced as graphs in which every edge uv has the following property: the number of vertices closer to u than to v is equal to the number of vertices closer to v than to u. Basic properties of these graphs are obtained. In this paper, we study the conditions under which some graph operations produce a distance-balanced graph.