Whole-head OPM-MEG enables noninvasive assessment of functional connectivity

Mainak Jas; Stephanie R Jones; Matti S Hämäläinen

doi:10.1016/j.tins.2021.04.006

Whole-head OPM-MEG enables noninvasive assessment of functional connectivity

Trends Neurosci. 2021 Jul;44(7):510-512. doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2021.04.006. Epub 2021 May 5.

Authors

Mainak Jas¹, Stephanie R Jones², Matti S Hämäläinen³

Affiliations

¹ Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: mjas@mgh.harvard.edu.
² Department of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA; Center for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology, Providence Veterans' Administration Medical Center (VAMC), Providence, RI, USA.
³ Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, School of Science, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.

PMID: 33965213
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2021.04.006

Abstract

A recent paper by Boto et al. established reliability of noninvasive functional connectivity measurements with a new whole-head optically pumped magnetometer magnetoencephalography (OPM-MEG) system. This rapidly developing technology enables a conformal sensor array to accommodate different head sizes and opens up new avenues for experiments in more naturalistic settings.

Keywords: on-scalp MEG; resting-state networks; task-based connectivity.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
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MeSH terms

Humans
Magnetoencephalography*
Reproducibility of Results