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Paraspinal Magnetic and Transcutaneous Electrical Stimulation

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High-voltage paraspinal electrical stimulation; High-voltage percutaneous electrical stimulation; Magnetic paravertebral stimulation; Magnetic spinal stimulation; Paravertebral neuromagnetic stimulation; Spinal electromagnetic stimulation; Spinal neuromagnetic stimulation; Spinal root stimulation; Transcutaneous posterior root stimulation; Transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation; Transcutaneous spinal stimulation; Transspinal stimulation

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Paraspinal magnetic and electrical stimulation target deep neural structures within the vertebral canal and in between neighboring vertebrae from a distance of several centimeters, with either magnetic coils or skin electrodes. The principal mechanism of stimulation at the neuronal level is the same for magnetic and electrical stimulation and is given by the induced electric field component or, in an equivalent way, the electric potential, generated along the anatomical path of the nerve fibers. Yet the generation of electric fields...

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Acknowledgments

We wish to acknowledge the support of the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF), Proj.Nr. LS11–057, and the Wings for Life Spinal Cord Research Foundation (WfL), Proj.Nr. WFL-AT-007/11. Special thanks are due to Frank Rattay for his insightful comments and to Martin Schmoll for his support in preparing the illustrations.

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  1. Center of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Ursula S. Hofstötter, Simon M. Danner & Karen Minassian

  2. Institute of Analysis and Scientific Computing, Vienna University of Technology, Operngasse 11, 1090, Vienna, Austria

    Ursula S. Hofstötter, Simon M. Danner & Karen Minassian

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Hofstötter, U.S., Danner, S.M., Minassian, K. (2015). Paraspinal Magnetic and Transcutaneous Electrical Stimulation. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6675-8_603

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