Stereoelectroencephalography (SEEG) records electrical brain activity with intracerebral electrodes. However, it has an inherently limited spatial coverage. Electrical source imaging (ESI) infers the position of the neural generators from the recorded electric potentials, and thus, could overcome this spatial undersampling problem. Here, we aimed to quantify the accuracy of SEEG ESI under clinical conditions. We measured the somatosensory evoked potential (SEP) in SEEG and in high-density EEG (HD-EEG) in 20 epilepsy surgery patients. To localize the source of the SEP, we employed standardized low resolution brain electromagnetic tomography (sLORETA) and equivalent current dipole (ECD) algorithms. Both sLORETA and ECD converged to similar solutions. Reflecting the large differences in the SEEG implantations, the localization error also varied in a wide range from 0.4 to 10 cm. The SEEG ESI localization error was linearly correlated with the distance from the putative neural source to the most activated contact. We show that it is possible to obtain reliable source reconstructions from SEEG under realistic clinical conditions, provided that the high signal fidelity recording contacts are sufficiently close to the source of the brain activity.

Department of Measurement Faculty of Electrical Engineering Czech Technical University Prague Technicka 2 166 27 Prague 6 Czechia

Department of Neurology 2nd Faculty of Medicine Charles University and Motol University Hospital 5 Uvalu 84 150 06 Prague 5 Czechia

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