Stimulating deep cortical structures with the batwing coil: How to determine the intensity for transcranial magnetic stimulation using coil-cortex distance

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 204, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 238-241

  Cai, Weidong ^a   George, Jobi S ^a   Chambers, Christopher D ^b   Stokes, Mark G ^c   Verbruggen, Frederick ^d   Aron, Adam R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EMG; Human; MEP; Motor cortex; MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BATWING COIL; BRAIN CORTEX; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; BIOPHYSICAL PROCESSES; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; SCALP; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855209877     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.11.020     Document Type: Article

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