17th International Conference on Biomagnetism Advances in Biomagnetism – Biomag2010: March 28 – April 1, 2010 Dubrovnik, Croatia

Front Matter....Pages -
Forty Years of Magnetocardiology....Pages 1-8
Highlights of 40 Years of SQUID-Based Brain Research and Clinical Applications....Pages 9-34
Development of a Whole-Head Child MEG System....Pages 35-38
Characteristics of the Helium Circulation System on the 440 CH Vector Type MEG....Pages 39-42
Correction of Disturbances Caused by Temporary and Continuous Head Movements....Pages 43-46
Video-MEG: Integration of Digital Video to MEG Epilepsy Recordings....Pages 47-49
Demodulated Effect of SQUID to Magnetic Signal Outside Frequency Bandwidth....Pages 50-53
Asymmetric Three-Dimensional Finite Element Analysis of a Magnetically Shielded Room with Access Ports....Pages 54-57
Mapping the Cardiomagnetic Field with 19 Room Temperature Second-Order Gradiometers....Pages 58-61
Towards Clinical MCG with Room-Temperature Sensors....Pages 62-65
Improvement of Small-Channel MCG System for Unshielded Environment....Pages 66-69
Magnetoresistive Hybrid Sensors for Simultaneous Low-Field MRI and Biomagnetic Measurements....Pages 70-73
Safety in Simultaneous Ultra-Low-Field MRI and MEG: Forces Exerted on Magnetizable Objects by Magnetic Fields....Pages 74-77
Hybrid MEG-MRI: Geometry and Time Course of Magnetic Fields Inside a Magnetically Shielded Room....Pages 78-81
Magnetic Resonance Relaxometry at Low and Ultra Low Fields....Pages 82-87
Characterizing Cerebral and Extracerebral Components in TMS-Evoked Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Signals....Pages 88-91
Real-Time Spatial Localization System of Brain Regions for TMS Application by Co-registration with fMRI....Pages 92-96
Multimodal Integration: Constraining MEG Localization with EEG and fMRI....Pages 97-100
Academic Software Toolboxes for the Analysis of MEG Data....Pages 101-104
The Adjoint Method for General EEG and MEG Sensor-Based Lead Field Equations....Pages 105-108
The Symmetric BEM: Bringing in More Variables for Better Accuracy....Pages 109-112
From Classical to Bayesian Estimators in the Interpretation of MEG and EEG....Pages 113-116
Skull Thickness versus Mesh Density — A Study on BEM Discretization Error....Pages 117-119
Domain Decomposition for Coupling Finite and Boundary Element Methods in EEG....Pages 120-123
Multi-condition M/EEG Inverse Modeling with Sparsity Assumptions: How to Estimate What Is Common and What Is Specific in Multiple Experimental Conditions....Pages 124-127
MEG-Clinic: A Comprehensive Software Solution for Routine MEG Analysis....Pages 128-131
MEG-SIM Portal: Reconstructions from Realistic Simulations of Sensory and Cognitive Processing....Pages 132-135
Time-Frequency Source Estimation from MEG Data....Pages 136-139
Array-Gain Constraint Minimum-Norm Spatial Filter with Recursively Updated Gram Matrix for Biomagnetic Source Reconstruction....Pages 140-143
Multiple Constrained Minimum-Variance Beamformers for Reconstruction of Induced and Evoked Neural Activity....Pages 144-147
Speeding-Up MEG Beamforming Source Imaging by Correlation between Measurement and Lead-Field Vector....Pages 148-151
A Method for MEG Data That Obtains Linearly-Constrained Minimum-Variance Beamformer Solution by Minimum-Norm Least-Squares Method....Pages 152-154
Current Dipole Estimation in MEG by Spatial Interpolation of Magnetic Sensors....Pages 155-158
The Compressible Estimate (CE) of MEG Current Sources....Pages 159-162
Single-Trial Analysis for Empirical MEG Data....Pages 163-166
Development of Human Brainwave Simulating Device for Magnetoencephalography and the Corresponding Dipole Localization Study....Pages 167-170
MEG Virtual Channel Methods for Movement Prediction and Training....Pages 171-174
An Algebraic Method for Eye Blink Artifacts Detection in Single Channel EEG Recordings....Pages 175-178
Relevant Observations for Averaging Stimulus Evoked Magnetic Fields across Trials and across Subjects....Pages 179-182
Quantification of the Time and Frequency Signatures of Visual Cortical Activation in the Developing Brain: A Study with MEG and Wave-Cross Spectrogram....Pages 183-186
Cluster-Based Algorithm for ROI Analysis and Cognitive State Decoding Using Single-Trial Source MEG Data....Pages 187-190
Decoding Subjective Simultaneity from Neuromagnetic Signals....Pages 191-194
Methods for Determination of Functional Connectivity in Brain....Pages 195-198
Estimating Directions of Information Flow between Cortical Activities Using Phase-Slope Index....Pages 199-202
Estimating Causality Measures from Reconstructed Source Time Courses When Large Background Activities Exist....Pages 203-206
Constructing Surrogate Data to Control for Artifacts of Volume Conduction for Functional Connectivity Measures....Pages 207-210
MEG Detects Alpha-Power Modulations in Pulvinar....Pages 211-214
Characterization of Spontaneous Neuromagnetic Brain Rhythms Using Independent Component Analysis of Short-Time Fourier Transforms....Pages 215-218
Prestimulus Oscillatory Brain Activity Influences the Perception of the McGurk Effect....Pages 219-222
Relating Motor Cortical Oscillations to Motor γ -Aminobutyric Acid (GABA)....Pages 223-226
Connectivity in the Human Fetal Brain....Pages 227-229
Electrical Brain Function of Prematurely Born Babies....Pages 230-233
Early Development of Sensory Systems in Prematurely Born Babies....Pages 234-237
Maturation of the Cortical Somatosensory Processing as Studied by MEG....Pages 238-241
Pediatric CNS Pathophysiology....Pages 242-245
Fetal Development Assessed by Self-Organization Indices....Pages 246-249
Altered Long-Range Phase Synchronization and Cortical Activation in Children Born Very Preterm....Pages 250-253
The Frequency Profile of Somatosensory Evoked Magnetic Fields in the Developing Brain....Pages 254-257
Detecting Gross Fetal Movements Using Fetal Magnetocardiography....Pages 258-261
Fetal Maternal Heart Rate Entrainment under Controlled Maternal Breathing....Pages 262-265
Magnetomyography Combined with Fetal Magnetocardiography in the Registration of Uterine Contractions....Pages 266-269
Characterizing Fetal Sympatho-Vagal Balance through Multivariate Time-Varying Autoregressive Modeling of Magnetocardiografic Data....Pages 270-273
Objective Assessments of Bone-Conducted Ultrasonic (BCU) Hearing by Auditory Evoked Fields....Pages 274-277
Observing Mismatch Fields from Human Auditory Discrimination of Heavily Damped Frequency Component Adjustments....Pages 278-281
Cortical Dynamics Underlying the Visual Perception of Stationary and Moving Stimuli....Pages 282-285
Neural Interactions between Dorsal and Ventral Visual Subsystems While Perceiving 3-D Structure from 2-D Motion....Pages 286-289
Objective Detection of the Flicker Fusion Threshold with Pupil Diameter and Visual Evoked Magnetic Field....Pages 290-293
Effects of Adaptation on Visual Sensitivity and MEG Responses to the Envelope of AM Flicker....Pages 294-297
Long-Range Coupling of Prefrontal Cortex and Visual (MT) or Polysensory (STP) Cortical Areas in Motion Perception....Pages 298-301
In Search of Neural Signatures of Visual Binding : A MEG/SSVEF Study....Pages 302-305
Repeatability of AEF and SEF from Static and Moving Head Positions....Pages 306-309
Functional Motor Mapping Using Corticokinetic Coherence....Pages 310-313
Face Processing in Children: Novel MEG Findings....Pages 314-317
Bottom-Up and Top-Down Driven Attentional Effects on Auditory Evoked Fields....Pages 318-321
Attention and Processing of Relevant Visual Information While Simulated Driving: a MEG Study....Pages 322-325
Temporal Dissection of Stimulus-Driven and Task-Driven Processes during Perceptual Decision about 3D SFM Stimuli....Pages 326-329
MEG Study of Amygdala Responses during the Perception of Emotional Faces and Gaze....Pages 330-333
Dynamic Brain Responses to Semantic Incongruencies in the Visually Presented Language Streams....Pages 334-337
Time Course and Neural Network for Comparing Written and Spoken Words: A MEG and DTI Study....Pages 338-341
Neuronal Effects of the SpeechEasy Treatment for Stuttering....Pages 342-345
MEG Detection of Attention and Memory Processes in Individuals with Dyslexia....Pages 346-349
Oscillatory Activity in Prefrontal Cortex during Implicit Letter-Location Binding....Pages 350-353
Spectral Power of Brain Activity Associated with Emotion — A Pilot MEG Study....Pages 354-357
Fair Play in the Brain – Cortical Activity in Response to Fair and Unfair Offers of a Fictitious Partner in a Gambling Design....Pages 358-361
rtMEG: A Real-Time Software Toolbox for Brain-Machine Interfaces Using Magnetoencephelography....Pages 362-365
Source Space Based Brain Computer Interface....Pages 366-369
Exploiting Prior Neurophysiological Knowledge to Improve Brain Computer Interface Performance....Pages 370-373
Neural Dynamics of Alcohol Effects on Cognitive Control: Eriksen Flanker Task....Pages 374-377
From Auditory Change Detection to Reading and Word Processing: Impairments in Children with Intractable Epilepsy....Pages 378-380
Hemispheric Differences in Neural Activation during Gaze Cueing in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Measured by Magnetoencephalography (MEG)....Pages 381-384
Cortico-Motor Coherence during Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease....Pages 385-388
MEG Slow Wave Dipole Density (SWDD) in Presurgical Evaluation of Epilepsy Patients: Preliminary Results of a Prospective Study....Pages 389-392
Brain Network Connectivity Dynamics during Voluntary Finger Movement in Right Handed Adults with Down Syndrome: Evidence for Contralateral and Ipsilateral Dominance....Pages 393-396
White Matter Abnormalities in Children with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: A DTI and MEG Study....Pages 397-400
Obtaining Auditory M100 Responses: Success Rates in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders....Pages 401-404
Early ERF Responses to Final Words in a Sentence Context during Reading in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders: An MEG Study....Pages 405-408
MEG Abnormalities in Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, a Case Report....Pages 409-412
Nondipolar Content of Cardiac Magnetic Field Maps in Patients after ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction....Pages 413-416
Magnetic Reconstruction of Circulating Excitation....Pages 417-419
Comparison of Cardiac Activation Models Using 3D MCG Data....Pages 420-423
Development of Pattern Recognition Method for Diagnosis of Myocardial Ischemia and Noncoronarogenic Myocardial Diseases Based on Current Density Distribution Maps....Pages 424-427
Evaluation of Electrophysiological Alteration Created by Local Autonomic Dysfunction Using Magnetocardiography....Pages 428-430
Magnetocardiography Study of Cardiac Anomalies....Pages 431-435
Magnetic Field Map Orientation in Patients after ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction....Pages 436-439
AC Biosusceptometry as a Tool for Monitoring the Gastrointestinal Transit of Multiparticulate Drug Delivery System....Pages 440-442
A New Technique for Magnetic Nanoparticle Imaging Using Magnetoencephalography Frequency Data....Pages 443-446
Magnetic Detection of the Sentinel Lymph Node in Ex Vivo Tissue with Colorectal Cancer....Pages 447-449
Effects of Magnetic Fields on Nervous Cells....Pages 450-453
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