2025 Volume 30 Issue 3 Pages 263-270
Electrode placement is one of the most important parameters in transcutaneous electrical stimulation. However, it is difficult to intuitively identify the optimal electrode placement that can efficiently stimulate a specific tissue because the human body is composed of multiple tissues arranged in a complex structure. To address this challenge, we developed a system that exhaustively searches the results of current simulations performed via the finite element method, thereby identifying the optimal electrical stimulation conditions from a large number of potential electrode placements. In this study, we applied the system to optimize electrode placement for electrical stimulation of tendons in the lower limbs and nerves in the head, and we confirmed the effectivenessof the proposed system.
