Sentences with phrase «pulses of electric current»

When hooked up to an electronic sensor, the pad converts signals from the sensor into small pulses of electric current across the grid, which the tongue «reads» as a pattern of tingles.

Summers underwent regular physical therapy sessions during which researchers passed pulses of electric current through the electrodes to stimulate neurons in the spinal cord.

Those technologies include the «driver» used to crush the fuel capsule, such as lasers, heavy ion beams, or powerful pulses of electric current.

Then pulses of electric current are passed through her brain via electrodes positioned on her head.

Not exact matches

Electromagnetic coils are positioned near a patient's skull to deliver brief pulses of magnetic fields; these induce electric currents inside the head, which cause neurons to fire in brain regions associated with mood.

For instance, using light pulses of a precisely controlled waveform, physicists aim to switch electric currents in electronics circuits with light frequencies.

To melt only the ice layer immediately in contact with the surface, he has developed a way of pulsing electric current into the heater in 1 - millisecond bursts.

The electric current pulses 30 times a second, heating alternating layers of the sandwich with each surge.