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Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 327953, 7 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/327953
Research Article

rtMEG: A Real-Time Software Interface for Magnetoencephalography

Gustavo Sudre,1 Lauri Parkkonen,2 Elizabeth Bock,3 Sylvain Baillet,4 Wei Wang,5 and Douglas J. Weber5

1Program in Neural Computation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
2Brain Research Unit, Low Temperature Laboratory, Aalto University School of Science, 00076 Espoo, Finland
3Department of Neurology, Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
4Departments of Neurology and Biophysics, Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
5Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA

Received 1 October 2010; Revised 18 January 2011; Accepted 28 February 2011

Academic Editor: Robert Oostenveld

Copyright © 2011 Gustavo Sudre et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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