The inhomogeneous conductivity property of cranial tissues and its representation in numerical head models

Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 92-98

  Wen, P ^a,b   He, F ^a   Sammut, K ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conductivity; EEG Forward Problem; Inhomogeneity; Numerical Head Model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEAD; PHYSIOLOGY; SCALP; SKULL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEAD; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCALP; SKULL;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY FORWARD PROBLEM; NUMERICAL HEAD MODEL; PSEUDO CONDUCTIVITY VALUES;

BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUROLOGY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

TISSUE;

EID: 0033237422     PISSN: 01589938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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