An interactive tool for customizing clinical Transacranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) experiments

A. Faro; D. Giordano; I. Kavasidis; C. Pino; C. Spampinato; M. G. Cantone; G. Lanza; M. Pennisi

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-13039-7_50

An interactive tool for customizing clinical Transacranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) experiments

A. Faro, D. Giordano, I. Kavasidis, C. Pino, C. Spampinato, M. G. Cantone, G. Lanza, M. Pennisi

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Abstract

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a very useful technique for neurophysiological and neuropsychological investigations. In this paper we propose a user-friendly and a fully customizable system that allows experimental control, data recording for all the currently used TMS paradigms (single and paired pulse TMS). This system consists of two parts: 1) a user-interface that allows the medical doctors to customize the settings of their experiments and to include post-processing and statistical tools for analyzing the acquired patients data, and 2) a hardware-interface that communicates with the existing TMS equipment. New algorithms for post-processing and new user settings can be easily added without interfering with the hardware part communication. The proposed system was used for conducting a clinical experiment for estimating patterns of cortical excitability in patients with geriatric depression and subcortical ischemic vascular disease, achieving very interesting results from the medical point of view.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IFMBE Proceedings
Pages	200-203
Number of pages	4
Volume	29
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13039-7_50
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	12th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, MEDICON 2010 - Chalkidiki, Greece Duration: May 27 2010 → May 30 2010

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Other	12th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, MEDICON 2010
Country	Greece
City	Chalkidiki
Period	5/27/10 → 5/30/10

Keywords

Geriatric Depression
Motor Cortex
Subcortical Ischemic Vascular Disease
TMS

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Biomedical Engineering
Bioengineering

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Faro, A, Giordano, D, Kavasidis, I, Pino, C, Spampinato, C, Cantone, MG, Lanza, G & Pennisi, M 2010, An interactive tool for customizing clinical Transacranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) experiments. in IFMBE Proceedings. vol. 29, pp. 200-203, 12th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, MEDICON 2010, Chalkidiki, Greece, 5/27/10. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13039-7_50

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