TY - JOUR
T1 - Potential distribution for a spheroidal cell having a conductive membrane in an electric field
AU - Jerry, Rocco A.
AU - Popel, Aleksander S.
AU - Brownell, William E.
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received February 24, 1995; revised April 29, 1996. This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health under the National Institute of Deafness and other Communication Disorders Grant DC00354, and under the Office of Naval Research Grant N00014-90-J-146 1. Asrerisk irzdicczres corraponding aulhor. *R. A. Jerry is with The Center for Hearing Sciences, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. He is also with the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Traylor 61 3, Johns Hopluns University School of Medicine, 720 Rutland Ave., Baltimore MD 21205 USA (e-mail; rjerry @bme.jhu.edu).
PY - 1996/9
Y1 - 1996/9
N2 - When a cell is situated in a uniform electric field, the field is modified due to the relatively low conductance of the cell membrane compared to that of the surrounding fluids. In certain cases, such as in the estimation of internal and external electrokinetic forces, one requires a means of estimating the magnitude of the electric field inside and outside the cell. Most treatments consider the case when the membrane has zero conductivity, or the case of only a spherical cell. We solve Laplace's equation for the electric potential distribution inside and outside a cell having a prolate spheroidal shape and having a membrane with a finite, nonzero conductivity.
AB - When a cell is situated in a uniform electric field, the field is modified due to the relatively low conductance of the cell membrane compared to that of the surrounding fluids. In certain cases, such as in the estimation of internal and external electrokinetic forces, one requires a means of estimating the magnitude of the electric field inside and outside the cell. Most treatments consider the case when the membrane has zero conductivity, or the case of only a spherical cell. We solve Laplace's equation for the electric potential distribution inside and outside a cell having a prolate spheroidal shape and having a membrane with a finite, nonzero conductivity.
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U2 - 10.1109/10.532132
DO - 10.1109/10.532132
M3 - Article
C2 - 9214813
AN - SCOPUS:0030249613
VL - 43
SP - 970
EP - 972
JO - IRE transactions on medical electronics
JF - IRE transactions on medical electronics
SN - 0018-9294
IS - 9
ER -