• Annals of Clinical Neurophysiology
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.163-170
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• 2006

Backgrounds: MEG can measure the task-specific neurophysiologic activity with good spatial and time resolution. Language lateralization using noninvasive method has been a subject of interest in resective brain surgery. We purposed to develop a paradigm for language lateralization using MEG and validate its feasibility. Methods: Magnetic fields were obtained in 12 neurosurgical candidates and one volunteer for language tasks, with a 306 channel whole head MEG. Language tasks were word listening, reading and picture naming. We tested two word listening paradigms: semantic decision of meaning of abstract nouns, and recognition of repeated words. The subjects were instructed to silently name or read, and respond with pushing button or not. We decided language dominance according to the number of acceptable equivalent current dipoles (ECD) modeled by sequential single dipole, and the mean magnetic field strength by root mean square value, in each hemisphere. We collected clinical data including Wada test. Results: Magnetic fields evoked by word listening were generally distributed in bilateral temporoparietal areas with variable hemispheric dominance. Language tasks using visual stimuli frequently evoked magnetic field in posterior midline area, which made laterality decision difficult. Response during task resulted in more artifacts and different results depending on responding hand. Laterality decision with mean magnetic field strength was more concordant with Wada than the method with ECD number of each hemisphere. Conclusions: Word listening task without hand response is the most feasible paradigm for language lateralization using MEG. Mean magnetic field strength in each hemisphere is a proper index for hemispheric dominance.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제52권10호
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• pp.606-610
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• 2003

Noise subtraction using reference channel data has been used to improve signal-to-noise ratio in magnetoencephalography. In this paper, an adaptive noise subtraction model is proposed and parameters for the model are optimized. A criterion to determine an optimal update period for the filter coefficients is proposed based on the ratio of peak amplitude of evoked field (N100m) divided by the output standard deviation. Experiments are carried out using a 40 channel MEG system. From the experiments, the proposed noise subtraction method shows superior performances over existing non-adaptive methods. Two-dimensional topographic map is shown for a diagnosis with a cubic spline interpolation.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.231-238
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• 2008

Nelder-Mead downhill simplex method (DSM), a kind of deterministic optimization algorithms, has been used extensively for magnetoencephalography(MEG) dipolar source localization problems because it dose not require any functional differentiation. Like many other deterministic algorithms, however, it is very sensitive to the choice of initial positions and it can be easily trapped in local optima when being applied to complex inverse problems with multiple simultaneous sources. In this paper, some modifications have been made to make up for DSM's limitations and improve the accuracy of DSM. First of all, initial point determination method for DSM using magnetic fields on the sensor surface was proposed. Secondly, Univariant-DSM combined DSM with univariant method was proposed. To verify the performance of the proposed method, it was applied to simulated MEG data and practical MEG measurements.

• 한국인지과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국인지과학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.61-65
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• 2006

본 연구는 한국어 어휘중의성 해결과정에 관련된 대뇌활동을 살펴보기 위하여 MEG(magnetoencephalography)를 이용한 실험을 실시하였다. 일차적으로 기존의 중의성 관련 fMRI 실험 결과들이 MEG를 이용한 신호원 국소화 결과와 유사한 패턴을 보이는지 확인하였고, 본 실험의 주요 목적인 중의성 관련 처리과정에 기저하는 하위 처리과정이 어떠한 기능적 처리 요소들로 분해될 수 있는 지에 대해서도 시간 해상도가 높은 MEG의 특성을 이용하여 관찰하였다. 분석 결과, 한국어 중의어 해소과정의 하위처리 과정은 어휘의미 접속이라는 기본적인 과정 비에, 이들의 의미분지를 유발하는 단서의 유무가 그 활성화 영역의 시간적인 패턴과 중의성 해결을 위한 지속시간에 영향을 미치는 것으로 확인되었다.

• Progress in Superconductivity
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.114-120
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• 2003

We employed a method eliminating a temporally partial principal component (PC) of multichannel-recorded neuromagnetic fields for excluding spatially correlated noises from event-evoked signals. The noises in magnetoencephalography (MEG) are considered to be mainly spontaneous neuromagnetic fields which are spatially correlated. In conventional MEG experiments, the amplitude of the spontaneous neuromagnetic field is much lager than that of the evoked signal and the synchronized characteristics of the correlated rhythmic noise makes it possible for us to extract the correlation noises from the evoked signal by means of the general PC analysis. However, the whole-time PC of the fields still contains a little projection component of the evoked signal and the elimination of the PC results in the distortion of the evoked signal. Especially, the distortion will not be negligible when the amplitude of the evoked signal is relatively large or when the evoked signals have a spatially-asymmetrical distribution which does not cancel out the corresponding elements of the covariance matrix. In the period of prestimulus, there are only the spontaneous fields and we can find the pure noise PC that is not including the evoked signal. Besides that, we propose a method, called the extended temporal decorrelation method (ETDM), to suppress the distortion of the noise PC from remanent evoked signal components. In this study, we applied the Partial Principal component elimination method (PPCE) and ETDM to simulated signals and the auditory evoked signals that had been obtained with our homemade 37-channel magnetometer-based SQUID system. We demonstrate here that PPCE and ETDM reduce the number of epochs required in averaging to about half of that required in conventional averaging.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.561-575
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• 2023

Brain network analysis has attracted the interest of neuroscience researchers in studying brain diseases. Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is especially proper for analyzing functional connectivity due to high temporal and spatial resolution. The application of graph theory for functional connectivity analysis has been studied widely, but research on network modeling for MEG still needs more. Temporal exponential random graph model (TERGM) considers temporal dependencies of networks. We performed the brain network analysis, including static/temporal network statistics, on two groups of epilepsy patients who removed the left (LT) or right (RT) part of the brain and healthy controls. We investigate network differences using Multiset canonical correlation analysis (MCCA) and TERGM between epilepsy patients and healthy controls (HC). The brain network of healthy controls had fewer temporal changes than patient groups. As a result of TERGM, on the simulation networks, LT and RT had less stable state than HC in the network connectivity structure. HC had a stable state of the brain network.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.456-463
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• 2010

In the present study, we proposed a new subspace scanning algorithm to enhance the spatial resolution of electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography(MEG) source localization. Subspace scanning algorithms, represented by the multiple signal classification (MUSIC) algorithm and the first principal vector (FINE) algorithm, have been widely used to localize asynchronous multiple dipolar sources in human cerebral cortex. The conventional MUSIC algorithm used principal component analysis (PCA) to extract the noise vector subspace, thereby having difficulty in discriminating two or more closely-spaced cortical sources. The FINE algorithm addressed the problem by using only a part of the noise vector subspace, but there was no golden rule to determine the number of noise vectors. In the present work, we estimated a non-orthogonal signal vector set using independent component analysis (ICA) instead of using PCA and performed the source scanning process in the signal vector subspace, not in the noise vector subspace. Realistic 2D and 3D computer simulations, which compared the spatial resolutions of various algorithms under different noise levels, showed that the proposed ICA-MUSIC algorithm has the highest spatial resolution, suggesting that it can be a useful tool for practical EEG/MEG source localization.

• 한국초전도ㆍ저온공학회논문지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.34-37
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• 2015

Developing Magnetoencephalography (MEG) based on Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) facilitates to observe the human brain functions in non-invasively and high temporal and high spatial resolution. By using this MEG, we studied alpha rhythm (8-13 Hz) that is one of the most predominant spontaneous rhythm in human brain. The 8-13 Hz rhythm is observed in several sensory region in the brain. In visual related region of occipital, we call to alpha rhythm, and auditory related region of temporal call to tau rhythm, sensorimotor related region of parietal call to mu rhythm. These rhythms are decreased in task related region and increased in task irrelevant regions. This means that these rhythms play a pivotal role of inhibition in task irrelevant region. It may be helpful to attention to the task. In several literature about the alpha-band inhibition in multi-sensory modality experiment, they observed this effect in the occipital and somatosensory region. In this study, we hypothesized that we can also observe the alpha-band inhibition in the auditory cortex, mediated by the tau rhythm. Before that, we first investigated the existence of the alpha and tau rhythm in occipital and temporal region, respectively. To see these rhythms, we applied the visual and auditory stimulation, in turns, suppressed in task relevant regions, respectively.

• Progress in Superconductivity
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.78-82
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• 2009

We have fabricated a helmet type magnetoencephalogrphy(MEG) with a $1^{st}$ order gradiometer in vacuum to improve the signal-to-noise ratio(SNR) and the boil-off rate of liquid helium(LHe). The axial type first-order gradiometer was fabricated with a double relaxation oscillation SQUID(DROS) sensor which was directly connected with a pickup coil. The neck space of LHe dewar was made to be smaller than that of a conventional dewar, but the LHe boil-off ratio appeared to increase. To reduce the temperature of low Tc SQUID sensor and pickup coil to 9 K, a metal shield made of, such as copper, brass or aluminum, have been usually used for thermal transmission. But the metal shield exhibited high thermal noise and eddy current fluctuation. We quantified the thermal noise and the eddy current fluctuation of metal. In this experiment, we used the bobbin which was made of an alumina to wind Nb superconductive wire for pickup coil and the average noise of coil-in-vacuum type MEG system was $3.5fT/Hz^{1/2}$. Finally, we measured the auditory evoked signal to prove the reliability of coil-in-vacuum type MEG system.

• 과학교육연구지
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.336-345
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• 2009

이 연구의 목적은 생명현상 관찰에서 나타나는 인과적 의문 생성 ERF components를 개발하는 것이다. 이를 위해 우선 인지심리적 방법으로 생명현상 기반의 인과적 의문생성 유발 사진 과제를 개발하였다. 이를 활용해 전기생리적 방법인 MEG(Magnetoencephalography) 두뇌 영상 기기를 이용하여 시계열적 두뇌 처리과정에 기초한 인과적 의문의 ERF(Event Related Fields) 패턴을 확인할 수 있었다. 생명현상 기반의 인과적 의문생성 유발 사진은 과학교육 전문가와 과학교육연구진으로 구성된 인원의 R&D 방식으로 개발되었다. 과제는 생물군 유형에 따라 동물(A, animal), 미생물(M, microbe), 식물(P, plant)과제로 분류 형태를 나누고, 생물 개체 수준의 유형에 따라 개체간 상호작용(i, interaction), 단일 개체(a, all), 개체 일부(p, part)로 구분하여 총 100장에 대한 인과적 의문 유발 사진을 완성하였다. 이후 서울대학병원 MEG 센터팀과의 세미나 과정을 통해 MEG 과제용 패러다임을 개발하고, 과학교육 전공 여자 대학원생 5명(M=26.4, SD=2.30)을 대상으로 인과적 의문생성간 MEG data를 수집하였다. 이를 통해 인과적 의문 유형별 고유 특성을 확인하기 위해 MEG ERF components 분석을 실시하였다. 인과적 의문 생성시 나타나는 ERF components 분석 결과 M1(100~130ms), M2(220~280ms), M3(320~390ms), M4(460~520ms) 총 4개 components 패턴이 발견되었다. M1과 M2의 경우 인과적 의문 사진 과제 제시에 따라 피험자가 관찰하는 동안 보고 되는 것으로 dipole fitting 과정을 통해 두뇌 활성 영역을 확인해 본 것처럼 시각령이 위치하는 후두엽에 걸쳐 확인되었다. M3 components의 경우 인과적 의문에 대한 불확실감을 해소하기 위해 장기기억 저장소로부터 경험 상황을 가지고 오는 귀추의 과정을 반영한다고 볼 수 있다. 이는 이전 경험상황을 분석하는 단계에 해당하며 학생들이 가설을 생성할 때 가장 큰 어려움을 경험하여 교사의 적절한 도움이 요구되는 부분이다. M4 components는 장기 기억 속의 경험 상황에서 인과적 의문에 대한 설명자를 표상하는 단계에 해당하는 것으로 인과적 의문 생성 후 가설을 만드는 전 단계에 해당 한다고 할 수 있다. 본 연구는 확인된 인과적 의문 생성시 나타나는 MEG ERF components와 latency 시간을 통해 인과적 의문 생성에 어려움을 호소하는 학생들에 대한 개별적 교수 처치와 더불어 고등인지 영역의 ERF 연구의 기초를 마련하였다는데 의의가 있다고 하겠다.