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. 2025 Jan-Feb;18(1):128-130.
doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2024.11.011. Epub 2025 Jan 2.

A BEM-FMM TMS coil designer using MATLAB platform

Dexuan Tang  1 , William Wartman  2 , Aapo Nummenmaa  3 , Mohammad Daneshzand  3 , Gregory M Noetscher  2 , Hanbing Lu  4 , Zhi-De Deng  5 , Sergey N Makaroff  6
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A BEM-FMM TMS coil designer using MATLAB platform

Dexuan Tang et al. Brain Stimul. 2025 Jan-Feb.
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Keywords: Boundary element fast multipole method (BEM-FMM); TMS coil array modeling and design; TMS coil modeling and design; Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS); User interface.

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Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.
a). Typical workflow with centerline extraction; b). E-field magnitude just inside a sphere center by an H-Coil in V/m c). Plane fields set up for a three-axis coil radiator; d). The resulting E-field magnitude in the plane defined in Fig. 1c in V/m; e). Example of coil array import into full-scale TMS software. Center of a 5 cm wide ROI is marked by a blue sphere; f)-i). Electric field magnitude within the ROI when X (red in Fig. 1e) and Y (green in Fig. 1e) windings of radiator #1 and #2, respectively, are driven independently and with the same current strength; j). Experimental comparison setup with the NKI E-field probe under a MagVenture C-B60 coil; k). Observation points over the sphere; l). Dominant field component for each observation point.
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