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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 29.
Published in final edited form as: J Neural Eng. 2016 May 6;13(3):036020. doi: 10.1088/1741-2560/13/3/036020

Table 1.

The conductivity specifications for 8 tissue types in the head model.

Tissue type Conductivity (S/m) Notes
Scalp 0.33 [32, 37]
Skull min = 0.0064 (hard bone)
max = 0.0259 (soft bone)
Based on CT [38]. Linear scaling of HU units between min and max [27, 39].
CSF 1.79 [32, 37]
GM 3×3 tensors. Based on DTI [4042].
WM 3×3 tensors. Based on DTI [4042].
Eye 0.40 [43]
Internal air 1e-15 [31]
Electrode sponge 1.4 [44]