EEG and MEG: Forward solutions for inverse methods

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 245-259

  Mosher, John C ^a   Leahy, Richard M ^b   Lewis, Paul S ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary element method (bem); Electroencephalogram (eeg); Forward model, head modeling; Realistic head model; Spherical head model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEAD; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; DIPOLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODEL;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEAD; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

BERG PARAMETERS; KERNEL MATRIX;

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS;

EID: 0032988746     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/10.748978     Document Type: Article

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