Correlation Between Skull Thickness Asymmetry and Scalp Potential Estimated by a Numerical Model of the Head

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 242-249

  Eshel, Yoram ^a  

^a Levy)   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; BRAIN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ASYMMETRIC SKULL THICKNESS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CORTEX; CURRENT DIPOLE; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; HEAD MODELS; HOMOTOPIC POINTS; SCALP POTENTIAL AMPLITUDE; SUCCESSIVE OVERRELAXATION METHOD;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HEAD; NONHUMAN; SCALP; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKULL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THICKNESS;

ADULT; BRAIN; CHILD; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; SCALP; SKULL;

EID: 0029256540     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.364510     Document Type: Article

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