Abstract
In order to ensure successful application of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), practitioners must be certain that they are targeting the correct cortical location. To aid in this, a number of clinicians and practitioners have begun utilizing various neuronavigation systems to track coil and participant-head position in space for the duration of a stimulation session. In this chapter, I explore the history of neuronavigation and the developments that made combining this technology with TMS possible. Following this, I discuss the practical aspects of properly utilizing a neuronavigation system: including MRI acquisition, 3D-reconstruction, head and coil co-registration, cortical targeting, motion tracking, and electric field modeling. I conclude with a brief discussion of incorporating robotic assistance in coil positioning and tracking.
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Comeau, R. (2014). Neuronavigation for Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. In: Rotenberg, A., Horvath, J., Pascual-Leone, A. (eds) Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. Neuromethods, vol 89. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0879-0_3
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