MEG versus EEG: Influence of background activity on interictal spike detection

Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 498-508

  Ramantani, Georgia ^a   Boor, Rainer ^b   Paetau, Ritva ^c   Ille, Nicole ^d   Feneberg, Reinhard ^a   Rupp, Andre ^a   Boppel, Tobias ^a   Scherg, Michael ^d   Rating, Dietz ^a   Bast, Thomas ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d MEGIS Software GmbH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dipole; EEG; Focal epilepsy; MEG; Spike detection

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AVERAGING; CALCULATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVICE; DIPOLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SKIN ELECTRODE; SLEEP; SLEEP SPINDLE; SPIKE WAVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; SLEEP;

EID: 33845427423     PISSN: 07360258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnp.0000240873.69759.cc     Document Type: Article

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