A computationally efficient method for accurately solving the EEG forward problem in a finely discretized head model

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 116, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2302-2314

  Neilson, Lora A ^a   Kovalyov, Mikhail ^a   Koles, Zoltan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

EEG forward problem; EEG source analysis; Finite difference head model; Preconditioned conjugate gradient method

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; GRAY MATTER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMORY; MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHITE MATTER;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEAD; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 24644523343     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2005.07.010     Document Type: Article

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