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Almost everybody in the audience, I’m sure, knows what magnetic stimulation is. I’d like to define it in a slightly different way from how engineers perceive it. I’d like to define it as a new solution to an old problem.
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Barker, A.T. (1994). Magnetic Nerve Stimulation: Principles, Advantages and Disadvantages. In: Ueno, S. (eds) Biomagnetic Stimulation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9507-3_2
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