[Eeglablist] EEG/MEG-neuroimaging technical report: eLORETA

[Roberto D. Pascual-Marqui]

A technical report with new results in the field of
EEG/MEG-neuroimaging (including eLORETA) can be downloaded from:
http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.3341
Title and abstract are included below.
Cordially,
Roberto
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R.D. Pascual-Marqui
The KEY Institute for Brain-Mind Research
University Hospital of Psychiatry
pascualm at key.uzh.ch
www.keyinst.uzh.ch/loreta
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Discrete, 3D distributed, linear imaging methods of electric neuronal
activity. Part 1: exact, zero error localization

Abstract: This paper deals with the EEG/MEG neuroimaging problem:
given measurements of scalp electric potential differences (EEG:
electroencephalogram) and extracranial magnetic fields (MEG:
magnetoencephalogram), find the 3D distribution of the generating
electric neuronal activity. This problem has no unique solution. Only
particular solutions with "good" localization properties are of
interest, since neuroimaging is concerned with the localization of
brain function. In this paper, a general family of linear imaging
methods with exact, zero error localization to point-test sources is
presented. One particular member of this family is sLORETA. It is
shown here that sLORETA has no localization bias in the presence of
measurement and biological noise. Another member of this family,
denoted as eLORETA (exact low resolution brain electromagnetic
tomography), is a genuine inverse solution (not merely a linear
imaging method) with exact, zero error localization in the presence of
measurement and structured biological noise. The general family of
imaging methods is further extended to include data-dependent
(adaptive) quasi-linear imaging methods, also with the exact, zero
error localization property.