Abstract
Current distribution in muscle tissue has significant implications for clinical procedures utilizing electric current to heat tissue. Many clinical applications would like to heat tissue at greater depths in tissue rather than only at the surface. To accomplish deeper heating, the distribution of current beyond the contact point must be understood. Current distribution in tissue has been modeled but experimental data is quite limited possibly due to the difficulty in measuring current flow in undisturbed tissue. This experiment utilizes a novel method based on voltage differentials to measure the current distribution in intact bulk tissue. The results show that current does not concentrate on a line between electrodes as some have suggested. Current flow spreads rapidly and widely in bulk tissue to utilize all available paths in the tissue between electrodes. The lack of current concentration hinders localized heating in deeper tissue.
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