Electrical impedance tomography of human brain function using reconstruction algorithms based on the finite element method

NeuroImage

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 752-764

  Bagshaw, Andrew P ^a,f   Liston, Adam D ^b   Bayford, Richard H ^b   Tizzard, Andrew ^b   Gibson, Adam P ^a   Tidswell, A Thomas ^a   Sparkes, Matthew K ^a   Dehghani, Hamid ^c   Binnie, Colin D ^d   Holder, David S ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; EVOKED RESPONSE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TECHNIQUE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0142106311     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-8119(03)00301-X     Document Type: Article

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