Magnetostatic image current and its application to an analytic identification of a current dipole inside a conducting sphere

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 183191-

  He, Sailing ^a   Norgren, Martin ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Conducting sphere; Current dipole; Explicit identification; Image; Localization; Magnetoencephalogram; Magnetostatic

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748149998     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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