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 |
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Title of host publication | IFMBE Proceedings |
Pages | 200-203 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Volume | 29 |
DOIs | |
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 |
Other
Other | 12th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, MEDICON 2010 |
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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