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In modelling the electrical behaviour of muscle tissue, we used to employ a frequency-dependent volume conductor network model, which was infinitely extended in all directions. Equations in this model could be solved using a finite-difference approach. The most important restriction of this model was the fact that no boundary effects could be incorporated. Analytical models of muscle tissue normally do not have this disadvantage, but in those models the microscopic structure of muscle tissue cannot be taken into account. In the paper, we present a combined numerical/analytical approach, which enables the study of potential distributions and SFAPs in simulated microscopic muscle tissue in which the influence of the muscle boundary has been considered. We considered muscle models with radii of 1·5 mm and 10mm. Both models were compared with an unbounded network model. In the model with a radius of 1·5mm we varied the position of the active fibre relative to the muscle surface. It appeared that in most cases the presence of a boundary had a considerable effect on the potential distribution. An increase in the peak-to-peak value of the SFAP amplitude up to 300 per cent was noticed when the active fibre was positioned 500 μm beneath the muscle surface in a model with a radius of 1·5mm.
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van Veen, B.K., Rijkhoff, N.J.M., Rutten, W.L.C. et al. Potential distribution and single-fibre action potentials in a radially bounded muscle model. Med. Biol. Eng. Comput. 30, 303–310 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02446968
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