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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-41763-4
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- European Research Council under ERC [678578]
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health [R01NS094604]
- Instrumentarium Science Foundation [180043]
- European Research Council (ERC) [678578] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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To estimate the neural generators of magnetoencephalographic (MEG) signals, MEG data have to be co-registered with an anatomical image, typically an MR image. Optically-pumped magnetometers (OPMs) enable the construction of on-scalp MEG systems providing higher sensitivity and spatial resolution than conventional SQUID-based MEG systems. We present a co-registration method that can be applied to on-scalp MEG systems, regardless of the number of sensors. We apply a structured-light scanner to create a surface mesh of the subject's head and the sensor array, which we fit to the MR image. We quantified the reproducibility of the mesh and localised current dipoles with a phantom. Additionally, we measured somatosensory evoked fields (SEFs) to median nerve stimulation and compared the dipole positions between on-scalp and SQUID-based systems. The scanner reproduced the head surface with <1mm error. Phantom dipoles were localised with 2.1mm mean error. SEF dipoles corresponding to the P35m response for OPMs were well localised to the somatosensory cortex, while SQUID dipoles for two subjects were erroneously localised to the motor cortex. The developed co-registration method is inexpensive, fast and can easily be applied to on-scalp MEG. It is more convenient than traditional co-registration methods while also being more accurate.
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