title: The optimal design of magnetic coil in transcranial magnetic stimulation.
abstract: Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a new tool for the study of the human brain and for neurological therapeutics. Magnetic coil design is very important in the TMS technique. Precise spatial localization of stimulation sites is the key of efficient functional magnetic stimulations. This paper develops circular coils, figure-of-8 coils and coil array elements in order to realize a transcranial magnetic stimulator, and analyses the coil properties. The results show that different coils have different focus.
authors.affiliation: Department of Precision Instrument, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China, Laboratory of Electromagnetic Field and Electrical Apparatus Reliability of Hebei Province, Heibei University of Technology, Tianjin 300130, China. gzxu@hebut.edu.cn
authors.forename: Guizhi
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Yong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Shuo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Mingshi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Weili
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Yan