Cortical source estimate of combined high resolution EEG and fMRI data related to voluntary movements

Methods Inf Med. 2002;41(5):443-50.

Abstract

Objectives: In this paper, we employed advanced methods for the modeling of human cortical activity related to voluntary right one-digit movements from combined high-resolution electroencepholography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Methods: Multimodal integration between EEG and fMRI data was performed by using realistic head models, a large number of scalp electrodes (128) and the estimation of current density strengths by linear inverse estimation.

Results: Increasing of spatial details of the estimated cortical density distributions has been detected by using the proposed integration method with respect to the estimation using EEG data alone.

Conclusion: The proposed method of multimodal EEG-fMRI data is useful to increase spatial resolution of movement-related potentials and can also be applied to other kinds of event-related potentials.

MeSH terms

  • Brain Mapping / methods
  • Cerebral Cortex / physiology*
  • Cortical Synchronization
  • Electrodes
  • Electroencephalography / methods*
  • Humans
  • Magnetoencephalography / methods*
  • Motor Activity / physiology*
  • Nerve Net
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Systems Integration*