Performance Characterization of an Actively Cooled Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Coil for the Rat

This study characterizes and validates a recently developed dedicated circular rat coil for small animal repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS).

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