Title :
Electrical source estimation in the human brain associated with auditory evoked magnetic fields using traveling source model
Author :
Iwaki, S. ; Ueno, S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Med. Electron., Tokyo Univ., Japan
Abstract :
In neuromagnetism, it is important to estimate electrical sources in the brain from the spatial distributions of magnetoencephalographic (MEG) activities over the head. Here, the authors investigate an estimation of traveling electrical sources which represents the propagation of neural excitations in the human brain. The results show that the sources of auditory N100 and Pa travel in the adjacent area in the auditory cortex. It is suggested that two auditory neural excitations with different latencies propagate same or neighboring neural pathways in the auditory cortex
Keywords :
brain models; electroencephalography; hearing; magnetoencephalography; neurophysiology; MEG activities spatial distributions; auditory N100; auditory Pa; auditory cortex; auditory evoked magnetic fields; electrical source estimation; head; human brain; neighboring neural pathways; neural excitations propagation; response latencies; traveling source model; Brain modeling; Conductivity; Current measurement; Equations; Humans; Inverse problems; Magnetic field measurement; Magnetic fields; Magnetic heads; Magnetic shielding;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1995., IEEE 17th Annual Conference
Conference_Location :
Montreal, Que.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2475-7
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1995.579353