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01-03-2009 | Research Article

Local sphere-based co-registration for SAM group analysis in subjects without individual MRI

Authors: O. Steinstraeter, Inga K. Teismann, A. Wollbrink, S. Suntrup, K. Stoeckigt, R. Dziewas, C. Pantev

Published in: Experimental Brain Research | Issue 3/2009

Abstract

Synthetic aperture magnetometry (SAM) is a powerful MEG source localization method to analyze evoked as well as induced brain activity. To gain structural information of the underlying sources, especially in group studies, individual magnetic resonance images (MRI) are required for co-registration. During the last few years, the relevance of MEG measurements on understanding the pathophysiology of different diseases has noticeable increased. Unfortunately, especially in patients and small children, structural MRI scans cannot always be performed. Therefore, we developed a new method for group analysis of SAM results without requiring structural MRI data that derives its geometrical information from the individual volume conductor model constructed for the SAM analysis. The normalization procedure is fast, easy to implement and integrates seamlessly into an existing landmark based MEG-MRI co-registration procedure. This new method was evaluated on different simulated points as well as on a pneumatic index finger stimulation paradigm analyzed with SAM. Compared with an established MRI-based normalization procedure (SPM2) the new method shows only minor errors in single subject results as well as in group analysis. The mean difference between the two methods was about 4 mm for the simulated as well as for finger stimulation data. The variation between individual subjects was generally higher than the error induced by the missing MRIs. The method presented here is therefore sufficient for most MEG group studies. It allows accomplishing MEG studies with subject groups where MRI measurements cannot be performed.

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Title: Local sphere-based co-registration for SAM group analysis in subjects without individual MRI
Authors: O. Steinstraeter
Inga K. Teismann
A. Wollbrink
S. Suntrup
K. Stoeckigt
R. Dziewas
C. Pantev
Publication date: 01-03-2009
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Experimental Brain Research / Issue 3/2009
Print ISSN: 0014-4819
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1106
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-008-1634-z

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