Short Term Effects of Magnetic Resonance Imaging on Excitability of the Motor Cortex at 1.5T and 7T

Academic Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 277-281

  Schlamann, Marc ^a   Yoon, Min Suk ^a   Maderwald, Stefan ^b   Pietrzyk, Thomas ^a   Bitz, Andreas K ^a,b   Gerwig, Marcus ^a   Forsting, Michael ^a,b   Ladd, Susanne C ^a,b   Ladd, Mark E ^a,b   Kastrup, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

biological effects; high field MRI; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; RADIATION DOSAGE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 75749119272     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2009.10.004     Document Type: Article

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