High-resolution EEG mapping: an equivalent charge-layer approach

Abstract

Brain electrical signal is one of the windows to understanding neural activities. Various high-resolution imaging techniques have been developed to reveal the electrical activities underneath the cortical surface from scalp electroencephalographic recordings, such as scalp Laplacian, cortical surface potential, equivalent charge layer (ECL) and equivalent dipole layer (EDL). In this work, we develop forward density formulae for the ECL and the EDL of neural electric sources in a 4-concentric-sphere head model, and compare ECL with EDL in theory, simulation and real evoked data tests. The results confirm that the ECL map may be of higher spatial resolution than the EDL map.