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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 2.
Published in final edited form as: Pain. 2015 Sep;156(9):1601–1614. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000210

Table 1.

Minimum technical parameters to describe a TMS study

Category Parameters
Coil design Shape
Size
Coil placement Coil orientation
Stimulation site
Method for locating stimulation site
Stimulation parameters Pulse intensity (as %RMT)
Pulse frequency
Train length
Train duration
Number of trains
Inter-train interval
Session parameters Total pulses per session
Total number of sessions
Between session intervals (e.g., weekday, every consecutive day)
Maintenance session parameters
Sham conditions Strategies for allocation concealment
Extent of blinding of subjects and administrators
Control of auditory, visual, tactile, electrical effects
Were subjects asked to identify real vs. sham?
Were subjects asked to rate sensory and/or auditory and visual sensations?