Unpublished educational project

BrainsWay Deep TMS for OCD: Medical Device Development Case Study

I wrote an educational case study of deep transcranial magnetic stimulation (Deep TMS) for obsessive-compulsive disorder, following one device from development to clinical use.

Fig. 1 The right half of a real human brain, seen from the midline (an MRI-based reconstruction, with regions from the Desikan-Killiany atlas), under the right half of an H7 coil, placed 4 cm in front of the leg motor area as in the treatment protocol; it targets the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC) and the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). The windings are drawn at their published sizes and the field weakens with depth at about the rate measured for the H7; the exact layout of the windings is schematic. Brain model: Brain for Blender by Anderson M. Winkler, CC BY-SA 3.0.

What it covers

Development of the H7 coil
The provocation-based, multicenter, sham-controlled pivotal trial and its Y‑BOCS outcomes
FDA De Novo clearance (2018)
Post-market outcomes
Reimbursement

What it is not

Not a clinical case report of a patient I treated
Not a consulting project for the manufacturer
Not a regulatory submission
Not peer reviewed or published