A modelling study to inform specification and optimal electrode placement for imaging of neuronal depolarization during visual evoked responses by electrical and magnetic detection impedance tomography

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Gilad, O ^a,b   Horesh, L ^c   Holder, D S ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain modelling; Electrical impedance tomography; Evoked responses; Finite elements; Neural imaging

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NEURONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECIFICATIONS;

BRAIN MODELING; ELECTRICAL DETECTION; ELECTRODE PLACEMENT; EVOKED RESPONSE; FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING (FEM); IMAGE PRODUCTION; IN-VIVO; MODELLING STUDIES; NEURAL IMAGING; OPTIMAL ELECTRODES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

SODIUM CHLORIDE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IN VIVO STUDY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETISM; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NERVE CELL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING; RECORDING; SCALP; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; VALIDATION STUDY; VISUAL CORTEX; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMPEDANCE; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 67349132517     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: 13616579     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/30/6/S14     Document Type: Article

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