Effects of Skull Thickness, Anisotropy, and Inhomogeneity on Forward EEG/ERP Computations Using a Spherical Three-Dimensional Resistor Mesh Model

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 86-97

  Chauveau, Nicolas ^a   Franceries, Xavier ^a   Doyon, Bernard ^a   Rigaud, Bernard ^a,b   Morucci, Jean Pierre ^a,b   Celsis, Pierre ^a  

^a CHU PURPAN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; EEG; Modeling; Skull conductivity

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; THICKNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANISOTROPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SKULL;

EID: 0842304281     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.10152     Document Type: Article

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