<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN'  'http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd'><article><articleinfo><title>AnalyzingData/MNE_simulation</title><revhistory><revision><revnumber>7</revnumber><date>2013-03-08 10:02:41</date><authorinitials>localhost</authorinitials><revremark>converted to 1.6 markup</revremark></revision><revision><revnumber>6</revnumber><date>2012-11-06 17:53:43</date><authorinitials>OlafHauk</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>5</revnumber><date>2012-11-06 17:52:52</date><authorinitials>OlafHauk</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>4</revnumber><date>2010-08-26 11:07:05</date><authorinitials>YaaraErez</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>3</revnumber><date>2010-08-26 10:49:52</date><authorinitials>YaaraErez</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>2</revnumber><date>2010-08-26 10:49:26</date><authorinitials>YaaraErez</authorinitials></revision><revision><revnumber>1</revnumber><date>2010-08-25 17:56:07</date><authorinitials>YaaraErez</authorinitials></revision></revhistory></articleinfo><section><title>Simulate Your Own Data in MNE</title><para>You can use the MNE function <emphasis role="strong">mne_simu</emphasis> to produce your own EEG or MEG data, for different ROIs (Labels). You can then apply your <ulink url="http://imaging.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/meg/AnalyzingData/MNE_InverseOperator">Inverse Operator</ulink> to these data, and check how well activation from these areas are localised.  In order to use mne_simu, you need a <ulink url="http://imaging.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/meg/AnalyzingData/MNE_ForwardSolution">forward solution</ulink> created in MNE (e.g. from a real measurement). For more details, please refer to the MNE manual (<ulink url="http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/meg/manuals/MNE-manual-2.6.pdf">V2.6</ulink>, <ulink url="http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/meg/manuals/MNE-manual-2.7.pdf">V 2.7</ulink>). </para><para>Example: </para><screen><![CDATA[mne_simu --meg \
         --fwd ${path}/${subjects[m]}_5-1L-MEG-fwd.fif \
         --label ${STCpath}/Label_Occ-lh.label \
         --label ${STCpath}/Label_Cent-lh.label \
         --label ${STCpath}/Label_Ins-lh.label \
         --out ${STCpath}/PubLabel-lh.fif]]></screen><para>--- </para><para>The following publications provide more information on the spatial resolution of MNE: </para><para><ulink url="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811908007143">Molins, A., Stufflebeam, S. M., Brown, E. N., Hamalainen, M. S. (2008)</ulink>. Quantification of the benefit from integrating MEG and EEG data in minimum l2-norm estimation. Neuroimage, 42(3), 1069-1077. </para><para><ulink url="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3018574/">Hauk, O., Wakeman, D.G., Henson, R.N. (2011)</ulink> Comparison of noise-normalized minimum norm estimates for MEG analysis using multiple resolution metrics. <emphasis>Neuroimage 54:3, 1966-74</emphasis>. </para></section></article>