Calculation of electrical potentials on the surface of a realistic head model by finite differences

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1079-1091

  Lemieux, Louis ^a   McBride, Alan ^b   Hand, Jeff W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GENERATOR; HEAD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL;

BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL;

EID: 0029762706     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/41/7/001     Document Type: Article

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