Effects of local skull inhomogeneities on EEG source estimation

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 143-154

  Ollikainen, Jorma O ^a   Vauhkonen, Marko ^a   Karjalainen, Pasi A ^a   Kaipio, Jari P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

EEG; Electrodes; Finite element method; Inverse problem; Realistic head model; Source localisation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

SKULL INHOMOGENEITIES; SOURCE LOCALIZATION;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BONE CONDUCTION; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDUCTANCE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCALP; SKULL;

BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SKULL;

EID: 0032803510     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4533(99)00038-7     Document Type: Article

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