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What is Magnetoencephalography (MEG)

Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems
It measures extracranial magnetic fields induced by electrical currents in the brain, noninvasively. The very weak magnetic fields of the brain are sensed by superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs).
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Modified Beamspace Method for the Spatial Filtering of Magnetoencephalographic Data
Tolga Esat Özkurt (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Mingyu Sun (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA), and Robert J. Sclabassi (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 10
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-889-5.ch115
Abstract
In this article, we propose a novel preprocessing method in the spherical harmonics domain to decompose the MEG signal into specific parts, whose sources arise from user-prescribed concentric spherical regions. A particular case of this approach is presented to separate the data into parts corresponding to deep and superficial regions of the brain, without using inverse solutions. Throughout this article, plain italics denote scalars, lower case boldface symbols denote vectors, uppercase boldface symbols denote matrices, superscripts T and H stand for transpose and Hermitian transpose, and ||.||, tr(.), * indicate Euclidean norm, and trace and complex conjugate operations, respectively.
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MEG is sensitive to changes in magnetic fields induced by electrical brain activity. MEG resembles fMRI in format and shows stimulated areas in the brain. Like in fMRI, MEG takes snapshot, but MEG is faster.
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Computational Methods in Biomedical Imaging
Non-invasive diagnostic tool which records the cerebral magnetic activity by means of superconducting sensors placed on a helmet surrounding the brain.
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