Optimising experimental design for MEG beamformer imaging

NeuroImage

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1788-1802

  Brookes, Matthew J ^a   Vrba, Jiri ^d   Robinson, Stephen E ^b   Stevenson, Claire M ^a   Peters, Andrew M ^a   Barnes, Gareth R ^c   Hillebrand, Arjan ^c   Morris, Peter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Beamformer; Covariance estimation; Experimental design; Finite integration; Inverse problem; MEG; SAM

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COVARIANCE; IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 38749136978     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.09.050     Document Type: Article

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