Marked differences in the thermal characteristics of figure-of-eight shaped coils used for repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1477-1486

  Weyh, Thomas ^a   Wendicke, Kerstin ^a   Mentschel, Claudia ^a   Zantow, Hannes ^a   Siebner, Hartwig R ^a,b,c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c NeuroImageNord Hamburg Kiel Lübeck ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Coil temperature; Efficacy; Figure of eight coil; Motor threshold; Overheating; Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONDUCTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ENERGY RESOURCE; FOLLOW UP; GEOMETRY; HEALTH STATUS; HEATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STANDARDIZATION; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOLUNTEER;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HEAT; HUMANS; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURAL INHIBITION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 20544435898     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2005.02.002     Document Type: Article

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