A comparative study of different references for EEG spectral mapping: The issue of the neutral reference and the use of the infinity reference

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 173-184

  Yao, Dezhong ^a,b   Wang, Li ^a   Oostenveld, Robert ^a,c   Nielsen, Kim Dremstrup ^a   Arendt Nielsen, Lars ^a   Chen, Andrew C N ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alpha; Average; EEG; Infinity; Mapping; Mastoid; Neutral reference; Power

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; PHOTOMAPPING;

ALPHA; AVERAGE; COMPARATIVES STUDIES; DATA SET; INFINITY; MASTOID; NEUTRAL REFERENCE; POWER; SPECTRAL MAPPINGS; TOTAL POWER;

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHM; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 23844550389     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: 09673334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/26/3/003     Document Type: Article

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