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Neurodevelopment is a vast and critically important area of neuroscience, yet there is a paucity of functional imaging research during the perinatal and infant period when development is most rapid and significant. MEG offers compelling advantages over EEG and other neuroimaging methods for perinatal research. Over the last few decades, interest in this area has vacillated, but it is likely to reemerge in the coming years as neurodevelopmental disorders attract greater attention. This short chapter comments on the current status and future prospects of fetal and neonatal MEG and highlights the SERF (spin exchange relaxation-free) magnetometer as an important new technology.
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Wakai, R.T. (2019). Current Status and Future Prospects of Perinatal MEG. In: Supek, S., Aine, C. (eds) Magnetoencephalography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00087-5_29
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