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Stimulation of deeper brain structures by tran-scranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) plays a role in the study of reward and motivation mechanisms, which may be beneficial in the treatment of several neurological and psychiatric disor-ders. This paper presents a numerical simulation of deep tran-scranial magnetic stimulation (dTMS) in a realistic head model by considering large circular coil surrounding the head combi-nation of smaller coils. Three-dimensional distributions of the induced electric fields in the head were calculated by employing impedance method. Simulation results show that multiple circu-lar coils provides a potential way to produce deeply penetrating electric fields in deep brain regions with less fields in superficial cortical tissues.
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Lu, M., Ueno, S. (2014). Numerical Simulation of Deep Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation by Multiple Circular Coils. In: Roa Romero, L. (eds) XIII Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2013. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 41. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00846-2_410
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