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Generators of visual evoked potentials investigated by dipole tracing in the human occipital cortex.
Neuroscience 1998 June
Current source generators (dipoles) of the human visual evoked potentials to pattern-onset stimuli were investigated with the dipole tracing method, using a realistic four-layer head model of scalp-skull-fluid-brain, which can equate the surface potential distributions on a scalp to one or two corresponding equivalent dipoles. Three healthy adult human subjects were used, and 29 electrodes were set on a scalp of each subject. Visual stimulus of a checkerboard pattern was presented for 250 ms in each of eight different visual fields (central and peripheral parts of each of four quadrant fields). The visual evoked potentials consisting of initial positive-late negative waves (CI and CII components designated by Jeffreys and Axford) were recorded mainly on the occipital region contralateral to stimulated visual fields. The initial positive wave (CI) of visual evoked potentials were divided into two components: early component of the CI (e-CI--an early small positive deflection with approximate peak latency of 70-90 ms) and late component of the CI (l-CI--a late large positive deflection with approximate peak latency of 100-120 ms). The dipole with a fit exceeding 98% dipolarity with our model at the shortest latencies was defined as an "earliest dipole" of the evoked potentials, produced by the primary responses in the occipital cortex to an afferent volley from the lateral geniculate body. These earliest dipoles, for eight different visual field stimulations, were estimated at the approximate peak of the e-CI. Estimated dipoles were superimposed on a three-dimensional magnetic resonance image of each subject's brain. Earliest dipoles for right upper and right lower quadrant-field stimulations were located at the left calcarine cortices below and above the calcarine fissure, respectively; earliest dipoles for left upper and left lower quadrant-field stimulations were located at the right calcarine cortices below and above the calcarine fissure, respectively. Furthermore, earliest dipoles for central and peripheral quadrant-field stimulations were located posteriorly and anteriorly in the calcarine cortex, respectively. The results from these non-invasive analyses of visual evoked potentials indicated topographic localization of the dipoles around the calcarine fissure based on the loci of the visual fields. This was comparable to the retinotopy of the human occipital lobe based on clinicopathological studies.
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