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Sensorimotor Mapping With MEG: An Update on the Current State of Clinical Research and Practice With Considerations
Xavier De Tiège1,2, Mathieu Bourguignon2,3,4, Harri Piitulainen5
1Department of Functional Neuroimaging, Service of Nuclear Medicine, ULB-Hôpital Erasme, Brussels, Belgium.
Abstract:
In this article, we present the clinical indications and advances in the use of magnetoencephalography to map the primary sensorimotor (SM1) cortex in neurosurgical patients noninvasively. We emphasize the advantages of magnetoencephalography over sensorimotor mapping using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Recommendations to the referring physicians and the clinical magnetoencephalographers to achieve appropriate sensorimotor cortex mapping using magnetoencephalography are proposed. We finally provide some practical advice for the use of corticomuscular coherence, cortico-kinematic coherence, and mu rhythm suppression in this indication. Magnetoencephalography should now be considered as a method of reference for presurgical functional mapping of the sensorimotor cortex.
