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


CONCLUSIONS
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.
Babiloni
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Dipartimento di Fisiologia Umana e Farmacologia, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy. Fabio.Babiloni@uniroma1.it
Babiloni
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Carducci
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Del Gratta
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Romani
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Rossini
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Cincotti
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D001931:Brain Mapping / Q000379:methods; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D003344:Cortical Synchronization; D004566:Electrodes; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D015225:Magnetoencephalography / Q000379:methods*; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology*; D009415:Nerve Net; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D018511:Systems Integration