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Time plays an important role in medical and neuropsychological diagnosis and research. In the field of Electro- and MagnetoEncephaloGraphy (EEG/MEG) source localization, a current distribution in the human brain is reconstructed noninvasively by means of measured fields outside the head. High resolution finite element modeling for the field computation leads to a sparse, large scale, linear equation system with many different right hand sides to be solved. The presented solution process is based on a parallel algebraic multigrid method. It is shown that very short computation times can be achieved through the combination of the multigrid technique and the parallelization on distributed memory computers. A solver time comparison to a classical parallel Jacobi preconditioned conjugate gradient method is given.
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Received: 13 July 2001 / Accepted: 19 December 2001
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Wolters, C., Kuhn, M., Anwander, A. et al. A parallel algebraic multigrid solver for finite element method based source localization in the human brain. Comput Visual Sci 5, 165–177 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00791-002-0098-0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00791-002-0098-0