Influence of tissue resistivities on neuromagnetic fields and electric potentials studied with a finite element model of the head

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 727-735

  Haueisen, Jens ^a,c   Ramon, Ceon ^a   Eiselt, Michael ^b   Brauer, Hartmut ^c   Nowak, Hannes ^d  

^a Friedrich SchillerUniversität Jena   (Germany)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d ILMENAU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alography; Biological tissues; Conductivity; Electroenceph; Finite element methods; Magnetoencephalography

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TISSUE;

MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEUROMAGNETIC FIELDS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GRAY MATTER; HEAD; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MOTOR CORTEX; TISSUE METABOLISM;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; BRAIN; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HEAD; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 0031213565     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.605429     Document Type: Article

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