Effect of conductivity uncertaintiesand modeling errors on eeg source localization using a 2-D model

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1135-1145

  Awada, Kassem A ^a,b   Jackson, David R ^a,c   Baumann, Stephen B ^a,b   Williams, Jeffery T ^a,c   Wilton, Donald R ^a,c   Fink, Patrick W ^c   Prasky, Brian R ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioelectric phenomena; Dipole localization; Electroencephalography; Finite element method (FEM); Imaging, inhomogeneity; Inverse problems; Source localization

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

SOURCE LOCALIZATION ERRORS;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONDUCTANCE; DIPOLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SCALP; SKULL;

BRAIN; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SCALP; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL;

EID: 0032171709     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.709557     Document Type: Article

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