Minimal heating of titanium skull plates during 1 Hz repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 118, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2536-2538

  Rotenberg, Alexander ^a   Harrington, Michael G ^a   Birnbaum, Daniel S ^a   Madsen, Joseph R ^b   Glass, Iain E S ^c   Jensen, Frances E ^a   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MindCare Centres   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TITANIUM;

CRANIOTOMY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPSY; HEATING; HUMAN; LETTER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; SKULL; TEMPERATURE; TITANIUM; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 35148844715     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2007.08.003     Document Type: Letter

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