LFPy: A tool for biophysical simulation of extracellular potentials generated by detailed model neurons

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue JAN, 2014, Pages

  Lindén, Henrik ^a,b   Hagen, Espen ^a   Łeski, Szymon ^a,c   Norheim, Eivind S ^a   Pettersen, Klas H ^a   Einevoll, Gaute T ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Biophysics; Compartmental modeling; Detailed morphology; Extracellular potential; Forward modeling; Local field potential; Python; Spike waveform

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; EXTRACELLULAR POTENTIAL; LOCAL FIELD POTENTIAL; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MODEL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; SIMULATION; SYNAPSE;

EID: 84892568768     PISSN: 16625196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2013.00041     Document Type: Article

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