A direct identification method for current dipoles from electromagnetic fields

AbstractWe discuss the identification problem for current dipoles in a spherically symmetric conductor. This mathematical model is used for a biomedical inverse problem such as the source current identification for the human brain activity. We have already proposed a direct identification method for this inverse source problem using observations of the magnetic fields outside of the conductor. One of the difficulties of current dipole identification using the magnetic fields is caused by the fact that magnetic field does not include any information about the radial component of dipole moments. In this paper, we consider an improvement of the direct method to identify both radial and tangential components of current dipole moments by combining electric and magnetic observation data. Furthermore, our approach is effective in the case where the number of dipoles is unknown