Performance of an MEG adaptive-beamformer technique in the presence of correlated neural activities: Effects on signal intensity and time-course estimates

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 49, Issue 12 I, 2002, Pages 1534-1546

  Sekihara, Kensuke ^a   Nagarajan, Srikantan S ^b,c   Poeppel, David ^d   Marantz, Alec ^e  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive beamformer; Biomagnetism; Functional neuroimaging; Magnetoencephalographic (MEG) inverse problems; Magnetoencephalography; Neuromagnetic signal processing

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT; WAVE FILTERS;

MAGNITUDE CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ACCURACY; ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EXPERIMENTATION; FILTER; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORY; TIME; WEIGHT;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURONS; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 0036932715     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2002.805485     Document Type: Article

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