Abstract
This study focused on the properties of nerve excitation responding to pulsed electric fields induced by time-varying magnetic fields. We carried out magnetic stimulation of the human brachial plexus by localized and vectorial stimulation using a sequence of rectangular electric fields induced by trapezoidal magnetic fields. The results show that the nerve excitation is suppressed when plateau of trapezoid is shorter than a critical value. We introduced a model to explain this phenomenon. The nerve excitation elicited by magnetically induced electric fields was simulated. A computer simulation shows that the threshold for nerve excitation elicited by the trapezoidal magnetic field decreases with the increase of plateau of the trapezoidal magnetic field.
