Hybrid ultra-low-field MRI and magnetoencephalography system based on a commercial whole-head neuromagnetometer

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1795-1804

  Vesanen, Panu T ^a   Nieminen, Jaakko O ^a   Zevenhoven, Koos C J ^a   Dabek, Juhani ^a   Parkkonen, Lauri T ^a,b   Zhdanov, Andrey V ^a,c   Luomahaara, Juho ^d,e   Hassel, Juha ^d   Penttilä, Jari ^e   Simola, Juha ^b   Ahonen, Antti I ^b   Mäkelä, Jyrki P ^c   Ilmoniemi, Risto J ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b Elekta Oy   (Finland)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^e AIVON OY   (Finland)

Author keywords

magnetoencephalography; MEG MRI; superconducting quantum interference device; ultra low field MRI

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MAPPING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICES; SIGNAL ENCODING; SQUIDS; SUPERCONDUCTING COILS;

COREGISTRATION ERROR; LOCALIZATION ACCURACY; MEG MRIS; MICROTESLA FIELDS; NEURONAL ACTIVITIES; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; SUPERCONDUCTING QUANTUM INTERFERENCE; ULTRA-LOW-FIELD MRIS;

SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

ARTICLE; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NEUROLOGICAL EQUIPMENT; NEUROMAGNETOMETER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 84878114039     PISSN: 07403194     EISSN: 15222594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrm.24413     Document Type: Article

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