BRAIN STIMULATION: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation
Volume 4, Issue 1 , Pages 28-37 , January 2011

Quantitative analysis of phosphenes induced by navigation-guided repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

  • Naoki Tani

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan
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  • Masayuki Hirata

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan
    • Division of Functional Diagnostic Science, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence: Masayuki Hirata, Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka University Medical School, Yamadaoka 2-2, Suita City, Osaka, 565-0871 Japan.
    • ,
  • Yu Motoki

      Affiliations

    • Division of Functional Diagnostic Science, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
    • ,
  • Youichi Saitoh

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan
    • ,
  • Takufumi Yanagisawa

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan
    • ,
  • Tetsu Goto

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan
    • ,
  • Koichi Hosomi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan
    • ,
  • Ayako Kozu

      Affiliations

    • Division of Functional Diagnostic Science, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
    • ,
  • Haruhiko Kishima

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan
    • ,
  • Shiro Yorifuji

      Affiliations

    • Division of Functional Diagnostic Science, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
    • ,
  • Toshiki Yoshimine

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka University Medical School, Osaka, Japan

Received 15 November 2009 ,Revised 13 March 2010 ,Accepted 23 March 2010.

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 This work was supported in part by Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research (15300202 and 18300184 received by T.Y. and 19390378 received by M.H.) and the Sugita Memorial Brain Research Foundation (grant received by N.T.).

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doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2010.03.006

BRAIN STIMULATION: Basic, Translational, and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation
Volume 4, Issue 1 , Pages 28-37 , January 2011

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