Multimodal Functional Neuroimaging: Integrating Functional MRI and EEG/MEG
Bin He
Zhongming Liu
Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN;
This paper appears in: Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Reviews in
Publication Date: 2008
Volume: 1,
On page(s): 23-40
ISSN: 1937-3333
INSPEC Accession Number: 10450972
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/RBME.2008.2008233
First Published: 2008-11-05
Current Version Published: 2008-12-09
Abstract
Noninvasive functional neuroimaging, as an important tool for basic neuroscience research and clinical diagnosis, continues to face the need of improving the spatial and temporal resolution. While existing neuroimaging modalities might approach their limits in imaging capability mostly due to fundamental as well as technical reasons, it becomes increasingly attractive to integrate multiple complementary modalities in an attempt to significantly enhance the spatiotemporal resolution that cannot be achieved by any modality individually. Electrophysiological and hemodynamic/metabolic signals reflect distinct but closely coupled aspects of the underlying neural activity. Combining fMRI and EEG/MEG data allows us to study brain function from different perspectives. In this review, we start with an overview of the physiological origins of EEG/MEG and fMRI, as well as their fundamental biophysics and imaging principles, we proceed with a review of the major advances in the understanding and modeling of neurovascular coupling and in the methodologies for the fMRI-EEG/MEG simultaneous recording. Finally, we summarize important remaining issues and perspectives concerning multimodal functional neuroimaging, including brain connectivity imaging.
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