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ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2019

Influence of Head Tissue Conductivity Uncertainties on EEG Dipole Reconstruction.

Johannes Vorwerk, Ümit Aydin, Carsten H Wolters, Christopher R Butson

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Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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Johannes VorwerkScientific Computing & Imaging (SCI) Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States.
Ümit AydinInstitute for Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Carsten H WoltersInstitute for Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.
Christopher R ButsonScientific Computing & Imaging (SCI) Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States.

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TRD - VisualizationP41GM103545 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI JOHNSON, CHRISTOPHER R., MACLEOD, ROB S. · 2012 to 2019
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NIGMS NIH HHS P41 GM103545
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Abstract

Reliable EEG source analysis depends on sufficiently detailed and accurate head models. In this study, we investigate how uncertainties inherent to the experimentally determined conductivity values of the different conductive compartments influence the results of EEG source analysis. In a single source scenario, the superficial and focal somatosensory P20/N20 component, we analyze the influence of varying conductivities on dipole reconstructions using a generalized polynomial chaos (gPC) approach. We find that in particular the conductivity uncertainties for skin and skull have a significant influence on the EEG inverse solution, leading to variations in source localization by several centimeters. The conductivity uncertainties for gray and white matter were found to have little influence on the source localization, but a strong influence on the strength and orientation of the reconstructed source, respectively. As the CSF conductivity is most accurately determined of all conductivities in a realistic head model, CSF conductivity uncertainties had a negligible influence on the source reconstruction. This small uncertainty is a further benefit of distinguishing the CSF in realistic volume conductor models.

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conductivity estimationconductivity uncertaintyEEG dipole reconstructionEEG source analysisfinite element methodgeneralized polynomial chaoshead modelingsensitivity analysis

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PMID31231178
PMCPMC6558618

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