Location of Sources of Evoked Scalp Potentials: Corrections for Skull and Scalp Thicknesses

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn BME-28, Issue 6, 1981, Pages 447-452

  Ary, James P ^a   Klein, Stanley A ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b The Claremont Colleges   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY SYSTEM; BONE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; SCALP; SKULL; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMAN; SCALP; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS - MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

EVOKED POTENTIALS; SKULL-AND-SCALP MODELS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0019728652     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.1981.324817     Document Type: Article

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