Maximum contrast beamformer for electromagnetic mapping of brain activity

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1765-1774

  Chen, Yong Sheng ^a,d   Cheng, Chih Yu ^a   Hsieh, Jen Chuen ^b,c   Chen, Li Fen ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d IEEE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

EEG; Electromagnetic brain mapping; Maximum contrast beamformer; MEG

Indexed keywords

DIPOLE ORIENTATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC BRAIN MAPPING; MAXIMUM CONTRAST BEAMFORMER; SPATIAL FILTERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMAL MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NEUROLOGY; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

BRAIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIPOLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NERVE CONDUCTION; PHANTOM; TECHNIQUE;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL;

EID: 33747867252     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2006.878115     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. J. Sarvas, "Basic mathematical and electromagnetic concepts of the biomagnetic inverse problem," Phys. Med. Biol., vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 11-22, Jan. 1987.
2. J. C. Mosher, R. M. Leahy, and P. S. Lewis, "EEG and MEG: forward solutions for inverse methods," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 245-259, Mar. 1999.
3. M. Hämäläinen, R. Hari, R. J. Ilmoniemi, J. Knuutila, and O. V. Lounasmaa, "Magnetoencephalography - theory, instrumentation, and applications to noninvasive studies of the working human brain," Rev. Modern Phys., vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 413-497, Apr. 1993.
4. S. Baillet, J. C. Mosher, and R. M. Leahy, "Electromagnetic brain mapping," IEEE Signal Process. Mag., vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 14-30, Nov. 2001.
5. M. Huang, C. J. Aine, S. Supek, E. Best, D. Ranken, and E. R. Flynn, "Multi-start downhill simplex method for spatio-temporal source localization in magnetoencephalography," Electroencephalogr. Clin. Neurophysiol. (Evoked Potentials Section), vol. 108, no. 1, pp. 32-44, Jan. 1998.
6. J. C. Mosher, P. S. Lewis, and R. M. Leahy, "Multiple dipole modeling and localization from spatio-temporal MEG data," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 541-557, Jun. 1992.
7. J. C. Mosher and R. M. Leahy, "Recursive MUSIC: a framework for EEG and MEG source localization," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 45, no. 11, pp. 1342-1354, Nov. 1998.
8. _, "Source localization using recursively applied and projected (RAP) MUSIC," IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 332-340, Feb. 1999.
9. M. Hämäläinen and R. Ilmoniemi, "Interpreting magnetic fields of the brain: minimum norm estimates," Med. Biol. Eng. Comput., vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 35-42, Jan. 1994.
10. K. Matsuura and Y. Okabe, "Selective mimimum-norm solution of the biomagnetic inverse problem," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 42, no. 6, pp. 608-615, Jun. 1995.
11. K. Uutela, M. Hämäläinen, and E. Somersalo, "Visualization of magnetoencephalographic data using minimum current estimates," NeuroImage, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 173-180, Aug. 1999.
12. G. R. Barnes and A. Hillebrand, "Statistical flattening of MEG beamformer images," Hum. Brain Mapp., vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 1-12, Jan. 2003.
13. H. Krim and M. Viberg, "Two decades of array signal processing research: the parametric approach," IEEE Signal Process. Mag., vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 67-94, Jul. 1996.
14. H. Cox, R. M. Zeskind, and M. M. Owen, "Robust adaptive beamforming," IEEE Trans. Acoust., Speech, Signal Process., vol. ASSP-35, no. 10, pp. 1365-1376, Oct. 1987.
15. B. D. Van Veen, W. van Drongelen, M. Yuchtman, and A. Suzuki, "Localization of brain electrical activity via linearly constrained minimum variance spatial filter," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 44, no. 9, pp. 867-879, Sep. 1997.
16. S. E. Robinson and J. Vrba, "Functional neuroimaging by synthetic aperture magnetometry (SAM)," in Recent Advances in Biomagnetism. Sendai, Japan: Tohoku Univ. Press, 1999, pp. 302-305.
17. K. Sekihara, S. S. Nagarajan, D. Poeppel, A. Marantz, and Y. Miyashita, "Reconstructing spatio-temporal activities of neural sources using an MEG vector beamformer technique," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 48, no. 7, pp. 760-771, Jul. 2001.
18. J. Gross, J. Kujala, M. Hämäläinen, L. Timmermann, A. Schnitzler, and R. Salmelin, "Dynamic imaging of coherent sources: studying neural interactions in the human brain," Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., vol. 98, no. 2, pp. 694-699, Jan. 2001.
19. J. Gross, L. Timmermann, J. Kujala, R. Salmelin, and A. Schnitzlera, "Properties of MEG tomographic maps obtained with spatial filtering," NeuroImage, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 1329-1336, Aug. 2003.
20. W. C. Gaetz and D. O. Cheyne, "Localization of human somatosensory cortex using spatially filtered magnetoencephalography," Neuroscience Letter, vol. 340, no. 3, pp. 161-164, Apr. 2003.
21. K. D. Singh, G. R. Barnes, and A. Hillebrand, "Group imaging of task-related changes in cortical synchronisation using nonparametric permutation testing," NeuroImage, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 1589-1601, Aug. 2003.
22. K. Sekihara, S. S. Nagarajan, D. Poeppel, and A. Marantz, "Asymptotic SNR of scalar and vector minimum-variance beamformers for neuromagnetic source reconstruction," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 51, no. 10, pp. 1726-1734, Oct. 2004.
23. J. Vrba and S. E. Robinson, "Differences between synthetic aperture magnetometry (SAM) and linear beamformers," in Proc. 12th Int. Conf. Biomagnetism, Espoo, Finland, 2000, pp. 681-684.
24. A. Hillebrand and G. R. Barnes, "The use of anatomical constraints with MEG beamformers," NeuroImage, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 2302-2313, Dec. 2003.
25. H.-Y. Liu, Y.-S. Chen, L.-F. Chen, and J.-C. Hsieh, "Statistical mapping of cortical activities using minimum-variance maximum-discrimination spatial filtering," Int. J. Bioelectromagn., vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 104-107, 2005.
26. A. N. Tikhonov and V. A. Arsenin, Solutions of Ill-Posed Problems. Pittsford, NY: Winston, 1977.
27. J. Gross and A. A. Ioannides, "Linear transformations of data space in MEG," Phys. Med. Biol., vol. 44, no. 8, pp. 2081-2097, Aug. 1999.
28. D. C. Lay, Linear Algebra and its Applications, 2nd ed. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley, 1998.
29. J. V. Uspensky, Theory of Equations. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1958.
30. E. Menninghaus, B. Lutkenhoner, and S. Gonzalez, "Localization of a dipolar source in a skull phantom: realistic versus spherical model," IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 41, no. 10, pp. 986-989, Oct. 1994.
31. R. M. Leahy, J. C. Mosher, M. E. Spencer, M. X. Huang, and J. D. Lewine, "A study of dipole localization accuracy for MEG and EEG using a human skull phantom," Electroencephalogr. Clin. Neurophysiol., vol. 107, no. 2, pp. 159-173, Aug. 1998.