Ellipsoidal head model for fetal magnetoencephalography: Forward and inverse solutions

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2141-2157

  Gutiérrez, David ^a   Nehorai, Arye ^a,b   Preissl, Hubert ^c,d  

^a University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

^b 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SQUIDS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ANATOMICAL INFORMATION; ELLIPSOIDAL HEAD GEOMETRY; FETAL MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY (FMEG); LOCALIZATION;

MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY;

ANATOMY; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; GEOMETRY; GESTATIONAL AGE; INFORMATION; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ULTRASOUND; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; FETUS MONITORING; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FETAL MONITORING; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL;

EID: 22844442244     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 00319155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/9/015     Document Type: Article

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