Effect of source location on the scalp potential asymmetry in a numerical model of the head

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 690-696

  Abboud, Shimon ^a   Rosenfeld, Moshe ^a   Luzon, Jacob ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

BRAIN SPONTANEOUS ACTIVITY; SCALP POTENTIAL ASYMMETRY; SOURCE LOCATION; VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIALS; VOLUME CONDUCTOR EQUATION;

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS;

ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COMPARTMENT MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GENERATOR; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SCALP; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BODY FLUID COMPARTMENTS; BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HEAD; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SCALP; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030200496     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.503176     Document Type: Article

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