Investigating spatial specificity and data averaging in MEG

NeuroImage

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 525-538

  Brookes, Matthew J ^a   Zumer, Johanna M ^a   Stevenson, Claire M ^a   Hale, Joanne R ^a   Barnes, Gareth R ^b   Vrba, Jiri ^c   Morris, Peter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Elekta Neuromag Oy   (Finland)

Author keywords

Information content; Linearly constrained minimum variance beamformer; MEG; Regularisation; Retinotopic mapping; Source localisation; Spatial resolution; Spatial specificity

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOSCOPY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 70349939487     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.07.043     Document Type: Article

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