Effect of brain damage and source location on left-right asymmetry of visual evoked potentials in a realistic model of the head

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 349-359

  Radai, M M ^a   Rosenfeld, M ^a   Abboud, S ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Head models; Potentials distribution; Visual evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

VISUAL EVOKED POTENTIALS (VEP);

BRAIN;

ADULT; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDUCTOR; DIPOLE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRODE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; GEOMETRY; HEAD; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0242669961     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4533(03)00033-X     Document Type: Article

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