Electric Dipole Tracing in the Brain by Means of the Boundary Element Method and Its Accuracy

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn BME-34, Issue 6, 1987, Pages 406-414

  He, Bin ^a   Musha, Toshimitsu ^a   Okamoto, Yoshiwo ^a   Homma, Saburo ^b   Nakajima, Yoshio ^b   Sato, Toshio ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD;

BRAIN; ELECTRIC DIPOLE; SCALP; SOMATOSENSORY EVOKED POTENTIAL;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CAT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPSY; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CATS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPILEPSY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMAN; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0023360110     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.1987.326056     Document Type: Article

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