@inproceedings{2eba096ae81f4ff5b25809d4b972879f,
title = "Registration of transcranial magnetic stimulation, a visualization tool for brain functions",
abstract = "We describe a method for the registration of functional brain datas acquired with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) on MRI brain images. TMS is a non-invasive method largely used in the study of brain functions. For the registration process we acquire 150 points of the patient's scalp with magnetic-field digitizer. Then, we minimize the mean square distance between those points and the segmented scalp surface drawn from MR image. The distance to the scalp surface is computed with the help of a 3D Euclidean distance transformation. For each stimulation, the position of the TMS device is acquired with the digitizer. The registration transformation is applied to the TMS coordinate in order to map TMS data and anatomical information. The results show that the method is precise (4mm) and reproducible (1mm).",
author = "Quentin Noirhomme and Eduardo Romero and Olivier Cuisenaire and Matthieu Ferrant and Yves Vandermeeren and Etienne Olivier and Beno{\^i}t Macq",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2002 IEEE.; 14th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, DSP 2002 ; Conference date: 01-07-2002 Through 03-07-2002",
year = "2002",
doi = "10.1109/ICDSP.2002.1027894",
language = "English",
series = "International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, DSP",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "311--314",
editor = "A.G. Constantinides and A.N. Skodras",
booktitle = "2002 14th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing Proceedings, DSP 2002",
address = "United States",
}