A meshless method for solving the EEG forward problem

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 249-257

  Von Ellenrieder, Nicolás ^a,c,d   Muravchik, Carlos H ^{a,c,d,e,f,g,h}   Nehorai, Arye ^b,e,i,j,k  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^b University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^d National University of La Plata ^*  (Argentina)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Stanford University ^*  (Argentina)

^g YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

ⁱ TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^j Res Engineer Syst Contr T Inc   (United States)

^k Yale University   (United States)

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Author keywords

EEG; EEG forward problem; Layered media; Meshless method; Moving least squares approximation; Numerical solution; Volume conductor

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENTS; CONVERGENCE RATE; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL DISTRIBUTION;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONDUCTOR; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; LINEAR SYSTEM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEAD; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL;

EID: 13244251004     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2004.840499     Document Type: Article

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