Solving the Electroencephalography Forward Problem with a Meshless Method
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چکیده
We describe a numerical method to solve the quasistatic Maxwell equations to obtain the electric potential distribution generated by a point source of current density inside a body of arbitrary shape and constant conductivity. The method needs only a set of nodes on the surface and inside the body, but it does not need a mesh connecting the nodes. The proposed meshless method is compared against the boundary elements method evaluating its performance when solving the electroencephalography forward problem. Keywords— Electroencephalography, Numerical solution of partial differential equations, Meshless methods.
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