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The research from our laboratory included in this review has been supported by a grant from NIH (RO1-NS21149), from NSF (DDR-8820556) and by Department of Veterans Affairs. I would like to thank Airi Lähteenmaki, Shinichi Kyuhou and Chibing Xu for their help in collecting data from the swine.
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Okada, Y. Empirical bases for constraints in current-imaging algorithms. Brain Topogr 5, 373–377 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01128693
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