Inter-individual variation during transcranial direct current stimulation and normalization of dose using MRI-derived computational models

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 3, Issue OCT, 2012, Pages

  Datta, Abhishek ^a,b   Truong, Dennis ^a   Minhas, Preet ^a   Parra, Lucas C ^a   Bikson, Marom ^a  

^a City University of New York   (United States)

^b Soterix Medical   (United States)

Author keywords

HD tDCS; Head model; TACS; TDCS; TMS; Transcranial electrical stimulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FIELD; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROMODULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION;

EID: 84870355798     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2012.00091     Document Type: Article

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