Hot spot hound: A novel robot-assisted platform for enhancing TMS performance
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Pennimpede, Giuseppe; Spedaliere, Luca; Formica, Domenico; Di Pino, Giovanni; Zollo, Loredana; Pellegrino, Giovanni; Di Lazzaro, Vincenzo; Guglielmelli, Eugenio
- Source
- 2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE. :6301-6304 Jul, 2013
- Subject
- Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Coils
Robots
Magnetic heads
Head
Magnetic stimulation
Accuracy
Trajectory
- Language
- ISSN
- 1094-687X
1558-4615
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive technique that produces excitatory depolarization in the neurons located in the cerebral cortex. In order to proficiently stimulate a specific cerebral area it is of main importance the correct positioning and maintaining of the magnetic coil, while avoiding the mismatch due to subject head-coil relative movement.