Patient semi-specific computational modeling of electromagnetic stimulation

To assess the level of the electromagnetic quantities towhich a cerebral lesion is exposed during a treatment, a model of thelesion inside a human head is needed. One possibility is to use a specificmodel, where both lesion and head are taken from MRI images of thepatient under treatment. This approach allows to have very detailed in-formation, but it’s difficult and time consuming; as an opposite, anothermethod considers completely generic models, where any degree of patientdetail is lost. In this study, a novel in-between approach is presented,where a semi-specific model is built. Here the model of the cerebral lesion,such as a tumor or an ischemic volume, is obtained from the patient scansand is inserted inside a standard human head model, i.e. ViP Duke v.1.0.