Table 1

Table 1
Classical Properties of Near and Far Field Potentials
Property	Far-Field	Near-Field

Latency	Relatively Independent of Recording Electrode Position	Strongly dependent on Position of Recording Electrode
Distribution on Skin	Broad	Narrow
Polarity	Positive	Negative or Positive
Recording	Monopolar	Monopolar or Bipolar

Richerson et al. BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2005 4:53 doi:10.1186/1475-925X-4-53