Forward Field Computation with OpenMEEG

To recover the sources giving rise to electro- and magnetoencephalography in individual measurements, realistic physiological modeling is required, and accurate numerical solutions must be computed. We present OpenMEEG, which solves the electromagnetic forward problem in the quasistatic regime, for head models with piecewise constant conductivity. The core of OpenMEEG consists of the symmetric Boundary Element Method, which is based on an extended Green Representation theorem. OpenMEEG is able to provide lead fields for four different electromagnetic forward problems: Electroencephalography (EEG), Magnetoencephalography (MEG), Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT), and intracranial electric potentials (IPs). OpenMEEG is open source and multiplatform. It can be used from Python and Matlab in conjunction with toolboxes that solve the inverse problem; its integration within FieldTrip is operational since release 2.0.

• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience

• Publication date

  2011-03-14

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics, Computer Science, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1155/2011/923703PMID 21437231PMCID 3061324
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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