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Multi-Resolution FOCUSS: A Source Imaging Technique Applied to MEG Data

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A variety of techniques are available for imaging magnetoencephalographic (MEG) data to the corresponding cortical structures. Each performs a functional optimization that includes mathematical and physical restrictions on source activity. Unlike other imaging techniques, MR-FOCUSS (Multi-Resolution FOCal Underdetermined System Solution) utilizes a wavelet statistical operator that allows spatial resolution to be chosen appropriately for focal or extended sources. Control of focal imaging properties is achieved by specifying P in an lP norm distribution template used to construct the wavelets. In addition, incorporation of a multi-resolution wavelet operator desensitizes the mathematical algorithm to noise, (regularization). Like the FOCUSS imaging technique, an initial estimate of cortical activity is recursively enhanced to obtain the final high resolution imaging results. Studies of model MEG data representing all regions of a realistic cortical model are performed to quantify MR-FOCUSS imaging properties. These modeled data studies included single and multiple dipole sources as well as an extended source model. Thus, MR-FOCUSS is found to be very effective for imaging language processing for pre-surgical planning and provides a high-resolution method to image sequential activation of multiple correlated sources involved in language processing.

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  1. Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, USA

    J.E. Moran, S.M. Bowyer & N. Tepley

  2. Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA

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  3. Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA

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This research Including the development of the MR-FOCUSS imaging technique and software implementation was supported by NIH/NINDS Grant R01 NS30914.

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Moran, J., Bowyer, S. & Tepley, N. Multi-Resolution FOCUSS: A Source Imaging Technique Applied to MEG Data. Brain Topogr 18, 1–17 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10548-005-7896-x

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