A transcranial magnetic stimulator inducing near-rectangular pulses with controllable pulse width (cTMS)

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 257-266

  Peterchev, Angel V ^a   Jalinous, Reza ^a,b   Lisanby, Sarah H ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Magstim Company US   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioelectric potentials; Biomagnetics; Biomembranes; Electric fields; Energy measurement; Heating; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Magnetic fields; Neuromuscular stimulation; Pulse generation; Pulse power systems; Pulse shaping circuits; Pulse width (PW)

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; BIOMAGNETISM; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS (IGBT); MAGNETIC FIELDS; PULSE GENERATORS; PULSE SHAPING CIRCUITS;

BIOMEMBRANES; NEUROMUSCULAR STIMULATION; PULSE POWER SYSTEMS;

PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC FIELD; ENERGY; HEATING; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOTOR CORTEX; NONHUMAN; RHESUS MONKEY; SEMICONDUCTOR; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 37349045082     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.900540     Document Type: Article

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