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Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 923703, 13 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/923703
Research Article

Forward Field Computation with OpenMEEG

Alexandre Gramfort,1 Théodore Papadopoulo,2 Emmanuel Olivi,2 and Maureen Clerc2

1Parietal Project Team, INRIA Saclay Ile-de-France, Neurospin-CEA, Bât 145, Point Courrier 156, 91191 Gif/Yvette, France
2Athena Project Team, INRIA Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée, 2004, Route des Lucioles, 06902 Sophia Antipolis, France

Received 14 September 2010; Revised 14 December 2010; Accepted 17 January 2011

Academic Editor: Sylvain Baillet

Copyright © 2011 Alexandre Gramfort 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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