A new method for extracting cable parameters from input impedance data
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1Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA. cox@rice.edu
Abstract:
We establish conditions under which the input impedance and its first two derivatives, evaluated at the origin, uniquely determine the axial resistance, membrane capacitance, and membrane conductance of a finite uniform cable with one sealed end. We argue that these impedance data are readily available to the experimentalist and we demonstrate the recovery of a cable's electrical parameters from synthetic noisy measurements.
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