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compound). The masks produced, after conveniently setting the threshold filter parameters,
are presented in Fig. 7.9, middle row. The limited level of detail concerning the complex-
ity and functionality of the real case is due to the limited accuracy of the images set and
computational resources available at the time. This simplified geometry brings out a good
balance between the computational costs and the excessive computational domain ideali-
zation, which can provide for misleading results and false conclusions, as already stated in
other papers (Wagner et al., 2004; Salinas et al., 2009; Nummenmaa et al., 2013).

Figure 7.9 The head and the applicator used in TMS numerical simulation. TMS, Transcranial mag-
netic stimulation. Source images (upper row) and label maps (middle row). The bottom row: FEM
mesh (left), computational domain (middle and right).