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Is it possible to apply TBS on Rapid2 through MAGIC? #21

Open pheart123 opened 11 months ago

pheart123 commented 11 months ago

Dear all,

We have tried using MAGIC for single pulse control and it worked very well.

However, we looked through the code (both rapid.m and magstim.m) and the documentation. There doesn't seem to be a way for setting burst mode (theta burst stimulation or TBS) and related parameters (e.g., inter-burst interval, pulse frequency within burst etc.) on Rapid2. We've tried to implement TBS with simple rTMS mode and use coding to control the interval between rTMS trains, but the interval for standard TBS sequence (roughly 200 ms) is shorter than the minimum wait time for Rapid Subclass.

Is there currently a way to implement TBS on Rapid2 through MAGIC?

longevity-software commented 11 months ago

The last that I knew, Magstim have not released the additional commands for theta burst control, it may be worth emailing them to see what their current stance is on providing these, as far as I know, most people who want theta burst, either use the Magstim UI, or provide trigger pulses externally at the theta burst intervals.

umair-hassan commented 11 months ago

Dear all,

We have not updated rapid code since a long time, please let us know if you have any update info regarding the burst and train control over rapid. Meanwhile have you tried looking through this in MagPy? There were some updated released in MagPy that might solve this issue for you.

Thank you, Umair