Phase lag index: Assessment of functional connectivity from multi channel EEG and MEG with diminished bias from common sources

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1178-1193

  Stam, Cornelis J ^a   Nolte, Guido ^b,c   Daffertshofer, Andreas ^d  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^c FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Absence seizure; Alzheimer's disease; Coherence; EEG; Functional connectivity; MEG; Phase lag index; Phase synchronization; Volume conduction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; IMAGINARY COMPONENT OF COHERENCY; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MULTICHANNEL RECORDER; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROIMAGING; OSCILLATOR; PARAMETER; PHASE COHERENCE; PHASE LAG INDEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEIZURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, ABSENCE; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34249997316     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20346     Document Type: Article

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