Spatial Filtering of MEG Signals for User-Specified Spherical Regions

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2429-2438

  Özkurt, Tolga Esat ^a   Sun, Mingui ^b   Jia, Wenyan ^b   Sclabassi, Robert J ^b,c  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Computational Diagnostics Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Biomagnetism; inverse problem; magnetoencephalography (MEG); signal space separation (SSS); source localization; spatial filtering; spherical harmonics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAD; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIBRATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAD; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VIBRATION;

EID: 74049130656     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2024760     Document Type: Article

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