BRAIN STIMULATION: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation
Volume 3, Issue 2 , Pages 119-123 , April 2010

Optically tracked neuronavigation increases the stability of hand-held focal coil positioning: Evidence from “transcranial” magnetic stimulation-induced electrical field measurements

Partial presentation of these data during the Third International Conference on Transcranial Magnetic and Direct Current Stimulation, October 1-4, 2008, Göttingen, Germany.

  • Massimo Cincotta

      Affiliations

    • Unità Operativa di Neurologia dell'Azienda Sanitaria di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence: Massimo Cincotta, U.O. di Neurologia, Azienda Sanitaria di Firenze, Ospedale Piero Palagi, Viale Michelangiolo, 41, 50125 Firenze, Italia.
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  • Fabio Giovannelli

      Affiliations

    • Unità Operativa di Neurologia dell'Azienda Sanitaria di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
    • Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
    • ,
  • Alessandra Borgheresi

      Affiliations

    • Unità Operativa di Neurologia dell'Azienda Sanitaria di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
    • ,
  • Fabrizio Balestrieri

      Affiliations

    • Unità Operativa di Neurologia dell'Azienda Sanitaria di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
    • ,
  • Lucia Toscani

      Affiliations

    • Unità Operativa di Neurologia dell'Azienda Sanitaria di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
    • ,
  • Gaetano Zaccara

      Affiliations

    • Unità Operativa di Neurologia dell'Azienda Sanitaria di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
    • ,
  • Filippo Carducci

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Fisiologia e Farmacologia, Università di Roma “Sapienza”, Roma, Italy
    • Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, AFaR S. Giovanni Calibita Fatebenefratelli, Roma, Italy
    • ,
  • Maria Pia Viggiano

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
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  • Simone Rossi

      Affiliations

    • Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Sezione Neurologia, Università di Siena, Siena, Italy

Received 26 October 2009 ,Revised 23 December 2009 ,Accepted 3 January 2010.

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 This project was supported by a grant from “Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze,” Florence, Italy.

PII: S1935-861X(10)00002-1

doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2010.01.001

BRAIN STIMULATION: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation
Volume 3, Issue 2 , Pages 119-123 , April 2010

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