Effect of measurement noise and electrode density on the spatial resolution of cortical potential distribution with different resistivity values for the skull

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1851-1858

  Ryynänen, Outi R M ^b   Hyttinen, Jari A K ^a,b   Malmivuo, Jaakko A ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

High resolution electroencephalography (EEG); Measurement noise; Skull resistivity; Spatial resolution; Spherical head model

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODES; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING;

HIGH-RESOLUTION ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY (EEG); MEASUREMENT NOISE; SKULL RESISTIVITY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPHERICAL HEAD MODEL;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NOISE; SCALP; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SKULL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCALP; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL;

EID: 33747850175     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2006.873744     Document Type: Article

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