Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 879716, 13 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/879716
Research Article

Brainstorm: A User-Friendly Application for MEG/EEG Analysis

François Tadel,1 Sylvain Baillet,2 John C. Mosher,3 Dimitrios Pantazis,4 and Richard M. Leahy1

1Signal & Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
2MEG Program, Departments of Neurology & Biophysics, Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
3Epilepsy Center, Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
4MEG Lab, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

Received 4 October 2010; Accepted 28 January 2011

Academic Editor: Robert Oostenveld

Copyright © 2011 François Tadel 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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