Determinants of the electric field during transcranial direct current stimulation

NeuroImage

Volumn 109, Issue , 2015, Pages 140-150

  Opitz, Alexander ^a,f,g   Paulus, Walter ^a   Will, Susanne ^b   Antunes, Andre ^e   Thielscher, Axel ^c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^f NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^g CHILD MIND INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; SKULL; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BRAIN; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84921486043     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.01.033     Document Type: Article

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