Brainsight TMS Navigation

What is Brainsight TMS Navigation?

The Brainsight TMS Navigation system is the world's leading neuronavigation device for researchers working with transcranial magnetic stimulation techniques. The navigation system is used by hundreds of leading neuroscientists worldwide, and the system's ability to offer researchers accurate, reliably and repeatable placement of a TMS coil has played a crucial role in supporting thousands of TMS publications in the 20 years since its creation.

The system's powerful - but simple-to-use - software offers users the ability to quickly design and set up a complete, neuronavigation TMS session within a matter of minutes, and provides researchers with fully customisable options to select registration landmarks, co-registration to standardised coordinate spaces, and even to configure multiple overlays for a truly deep and flexible experience.

Targets for stimulation can be identified by manually selecting and highlighting the desired structure or location or by combining MRI images with areas of activity highlighted with fMRI, EEG or NIRS. Brainsight neuronavigation provides feedback on coil position and coil orientation (trajectory: pitch, tilt, and yaw) with respect to these predefined targets, critical in accurately repositioning the coil across multiple sessions.

Brainsight neuronavigation can also digitise the position of EEG electrodes for use in subsequent analyses. Brainsight can load sequence files, such as those used by BESA, to digitise electrodes in a particular order and digitise head shape to enable the co-registration of EEG electrode and MRI coordinate spaces.

It is also becoming increasingly popular to use simulations alongside software such as SimNIBS or ROAST to estimate current flow and electric field to identify sites that are most affected by tES montages. Brainsight can be used to digitise the position of tES electrodes that can then be used in electric field and current flow simulations.

Is the Brainsight TMS Navigation system right for me?

Neuronavigation systems are essential for researchers using non-invasive brain stimulation techniques where delivering stimulation accurately to a specific position on the subject's head is crucial to experimental success.

Brainsight TMS Navigation allows a researcher to track the position of their TMS coil in 3D space in real-time - the position of the coil is then tracked relative to an anatomical area of interest selected in the software. Brainsight not only tracks the position of the coil but also the orientation of the coil handle relative to the hotspot where the magnetic field is greatest.

By employing neuronavigation technologies, researchers can reliably improve the accuracy and repeatability of their experiment as they are able to quickly and efficiently return to their chosen site of stimulation.

Brainsight-SimNIBS Integration & Feature Highlights: 

In this video, we explore the latest additions to Brainsight TMS Navigation, including the ability for operators to visualise current flow modelling calculations, performed by SimNIBS (Simulation of non-invasive brain stimulation), in the Brainsight GUI. The webinar will examine how a user can perform, interpret, and understand these calculations, as well as dedicate time to examine other new features that have been introduced into Brainsight over the past 12 months.