H-coil: Induced electric field properties and input/output curves on healthy volunteers, comparison with a standard figure-of-eight coil

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 120, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1174-1182

  Fadini, Tommaso ^a   Matthäus, Lars ^b   Rothkegel, Holger ^a   Sommer, Martin ^a   Tergau, Frithjof ^a   Schweikard, Achim ^b   Paulus, Walter ^a   Nitsche, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain stimulation; Electric field; H coil; Latency; Motor threshold; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRIC FIELD; FEMALE; FIGURE OF EIGHT COIL; H COIL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNETIC AND ELECTROMAGNETIC EQUIPMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE TWITCH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 65849399038     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2009.02.176     Document Type: Article

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