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Clinical Magnetoencephalography and fMRI

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Over the past two decades, numerous studies have demonstrated that functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) conveniently maps brain activity, both at rest and during a task. The spatial resolution of fMRI in clinical scanners can exceed 1 mm in plane resolution. The temporal resolution, however, is limited to around 1 s or perhaps a few hundred milliseconds depending on the technique and the paradigm used. Today, in the clinical and research setting, MEG directly measures neuromagnetic activity at a high temporal resolution and supplements or replaces the spatial information provided by fMRI.

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Stufflebeam, S.M. (2013). Clinical Magnetoencephalography and fMRI. In: Ulmer, S., Jansen, O. (eds) fMRI. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34342-1_22

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