The equivalent source technique and cortical imaging.

Y Dezhong

doi:10.1016/0013-4694(96)94694-5

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The equivalent source technique and cortical imaging.

Y Dezhong

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As an equivalent source localisation technique, the radial dipole source has been chosen as the equivalent source of the actual neural source in the recently developed cortical imaging technique (CIT). In this short paper, the point current source is numerically tested as a new kind of equivalent source for implementing CIT. The results confirm the efficiency of the new equivalent source.

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Y Dezhong. 1996. The equivalent source technique and cortical imaging.. https://doi.org/10.1016/0013-4694(96)94694-5

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