Image Artifacts in Concurrent Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and fMRI Caused by Leakage Currents: Modeling and Compensation

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1211-1217

  Weiskopf, Nikolaus ^a   Josephs, Oliver ^a   Ruff, Christian C ^a,b   Blankenburg, Felix ^a,b,c   Featherstone, Eric ^a   Thomas, Anthony ^d   Bestmann, Sven ^a   Driver, Jon ^a,b   Deichmann, Ralf ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

^d The Magstim Company Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

fMRI; functional magnetic resonance imaging; Leakage current; MR artifacts; TMS; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTRIC CURRENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAGNETIC FIELD; MEASUREMENT; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 66149143940     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.21749     Document Type: Article

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