Dipole estimation errors due to not incorporating anisotropic conductivities in realistic head models for EEG source analysis

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 6079-6093

  Hallez, Hans ^a   Staelens, Steven ^a   Lemahieu, Ignace ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC CONDUCTIVITY; BRAIN TISSUE; DIPOLE ORIENTATION; ELECTRODE POTENTIALS; ESTIMATION ERRORS; GEOMETRICAL REPRESENTATION; HEAD MODEL; HUMAN HEAD; LOCATION ERRORS; NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS; ORIENTATION ERROR; REALISTIC HEAD MODELS; SIMULATION STUDIES; SOURCE ANALYSIS; WHITE MATTER;

BRAIN; BRAIN MODELS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; HISTOLOGY; SIMULATORS; TISSUE;

ANISOTROPY;

ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONDUCTANCE; DIPOLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GEOMETRY; HEAD; MEDICAL ERROR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SKULL;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HEAD; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKULL;

EID: 70449122803     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/20/004     Document Type: Article

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