Searching for the best model: Ambiguity of inverse solutions and application to fetal magnetoencephalography

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 757-776

  Vrba, J ^a   Robinson, S E ^a   McCubbin, J ^b   Lowery, C L ^b   Eswaran, H ^b   Murphy, P ^b   Preissl, H ^b,c  

^a VSM MedTech Ltd   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FETAL MONITORING; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVE INTERFERENCE;

BRAIN SOURCE POSITION; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELS; FETAL BRAIN SIGNALS; WEAK FETAL FIELDS;

BRAIN MODELS;

AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; DIPOLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FETUS; HEAD; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MODEL; NOISE; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; VALIDATION STUDY; WAVEFORM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOPHYSICS; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PREGNANCY;

EID: 34047270884     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/3/016     Document Type: Article

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