A second-order finite element algorithm for solving the three-dimensional EEG forward problem

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 2975-2987

  Zhang, Y C ^a   Zhu, S A ^a   He, Bin ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STIFFNESS MATRIX;

ANISOTROPIC CONDUCTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; FINITE ELEMENT ALGORITHM;

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPOLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEAD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; RIGIDITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SOFTWARE;

EID: 3442894513     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/13/014     Document Type: Article

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