Calculating the current density and electric field in human head by multichannel transcranial magnetic stimulation

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1662-1665

  Lu, Mai ^a   Ueno, Shoogo ^b   Thorlin, Thorleif ^c   Persson, Mikael ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Current density; Electric field; Impedance method; Multichannel transcranial magnetic stimulation (mTMS)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRIC STIMULATION;

COIL CURRENTS; FIGURE-OF-EIGHT COILS; HUMAN HEAD MODELS; HUMAN HEADS; IMPEDANCE METHOD; INDUCED CURRENT DENSITIES; INDUCED FIELDS; INPUT CURRENTS; MULTICHANNEL TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION (MTMS);

CURRENT DENSITY;

EID: 61449234255     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2009.2012770     Document Type: Article

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