Multichannel squid systems for brain research

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1991, Pages 2786-2792

  Tesche, C D ^b   Hamalainen M S ^a   Kajola, M J ^a   Knuutila, J E T ^a   Lounasmaa, O V ^a   Simola, J T ^a   Vilkman, V A ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC DEVICES; MAGNETISM - MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

DC SQUID; EPILEPSY; GRADIOMETERS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MEG; NEUROMAGNETIC INSTRUMENTATION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0026124444     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: 19410069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.133789     Document Type: Article

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