Sensitivity of beamformer source analysis to deficiencies in forward modeling

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1907-1927

  Steinsträter, Olaf ^a   Sillekens, Stephanie ^a   Junghoefer, Markus ^a   Burger, Martin ^a   Wolters, Carsten H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Beamformer; EEG; Finite element method; MEG; Realistic volume conductor modeling; Source analysis; Synthetic aperture magnetometry

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BEAMFORMER SOURCE ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDUCTOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTRON BEAM; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SKULL; SYNTHETIC APERTURE MAGNETOMETRY; THICKNESS;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 78649567545     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20986     Document Type: Article

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