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Integrated MEG and fMRI Model: Synthesis and Analysis

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An integrated model for magnetoencephalography (MEG) and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is proposed. In the model, the neural activity is related to the Post Synaptic Potentials (PSPs) which is common link between MEG and fMRI. Each PSP is modeled by the direction and strength of its current flow which are treated as random variables. The overall neural activity in each voxel is used for equivalent current dipole in MEG and as input of extended Balloon model in fMRI. The proposed model shows the possibility of detecting activation by fMRI in a voxel while the voxel is silent for MEG and vice versa. Parameters of the model can illustrate situations like closed field due to non-pyramidal cells, canceling effect of inhibitory PSP on excitatory PSP, and effect of synchronicity. In addition, the model shows that the crosstalk from neural activities of the adjacent voxels in fMRI may result in the detection of activations in these voxels that contain no neural activities. The proposed model is instrumental in evaluating and comparing different analysis methods of MEG and fMRI. It is also useful in characterizing the upcoming combined methods for simultaneous analysis of MEG and fMRI.

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  1. Control and Intelligent Processing Center of Excellence, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

    Abbas Babajani, Mohammad-Hossein Nekooei & Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh

  2. Image Analysis Lab., Radiology Department, Henry Ford Health System, One Ford Place, 2F, Detroit, MI, 48202, USA

    Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh

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This work was supported in part by the Research Council of the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. The authors would like to thank Dr. John Moran from the Neurology Department, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan, USA for his helpful discussions and kind assistance.

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Babajani, A., Nekooei, MH. & Soltanian-Zadeh, H. Integrated MEG and fMRI Model: Synthesis and Analysis. Brain Topogr 18, 101–113 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10548-005-0279-5

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