A study of dipole localization accuracy for MEG and EEG using a human skull phantom

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 159-173

  Leahy, R M ^a   Mosher, J C ^b   Spencer, M E ^c   Huang, M X ^d   Lewine, J D ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Signal Processing Solutions   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary element methods; Dipole localization; Electroencephalography (EEG); Locally fitted spheres; Magnetoencephalography (MEG); Phantom

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DIPOLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKULL; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031858473     PISSN: 00134694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-4694(98)00057-1     Document Type: Article

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