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Properties of Advanced Headmodelling and Source Reconstruction for the Localization of Epileptiform Activity

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During the last decade multiple work has been done to determine the sources of epileptiform activity by means of dipole source localization based on recordings of the magnetoencephalogram (MEG) or the electroencephalogram (EEG). The actual available advanced volume conductor models and the multiple source reconstruction by regularization may give new impulse to EEG based source analyses in epilepsy patients. This study demonstrates the principal properties of these techniques. We applied two different EEG source reconstruction techniques within different volume conductor models to localize induced spike activity in a selected patient suffering from medically intractable temporal lobe epilepsy: 1) single moving dipole solution in a 3-shell spherical model versus individual head models (boundary-element-model, BEM, and finite-element-model, FEM); 2) a regularization technique for current density reconstructions using both BEM and FEM. When compared to findings of invasive recordings no adequate source locations were derived from the moving dipole solution in both the 3-shell head model and BEM. In contrast, a high congruence of source reconstruction and invasive determination of the focus was obtained using the regularization techniques in both BEM and FEM, indicating the high spatial accuracy of this technique in individual head models.

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  1. Dept. of Neurology, RWTH, Aachen, Germany

    Till D. Waberski, Helmut Buchner & Rainer Beckmann

  2. Clinic of Epileptology University, Bonn, Germany

    Klaus Lehnertz & Andreas Hufnagel

  3. Philips Research, Hamburg, Germany

    Manfred Fuchs

  4. Institute of Machine Elements and Tribology Kassel, Germany

    Adrian Rienäcker

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Waberski, T.D., Buchner, H., Lehnertz, K. et al. Properties of Advanced Headmodelling and Source Reconstruction for the Localization of Epileptiform Activity. Brain Topogr 10, 283–290 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022275024069

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