How the brain tissue shapes the electric field induced by transcranial magnetic stimulation

NeuroImage

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 849-859

  Opitz, Alexander ^a   Windhoff, Mirko ^a   Heidemann, Robin M ^b   Turner, Robert ^b   Thielscher, Axel ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conductivity anisotropy; Diffusion weighted imaging; Electric field calculation; Finite element method; High field magnetic resonance imaging; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC FIELD; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 80052170370     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.06.069     Document Type: Article

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