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Nakayama K, Kohara N, Paku M, Sato S, Nakamura M, Ando M, Taniguchi S, Ishihara M, Tani Y, Itakura T, Saito T, Yakushiji Y. Visualization of axonal and volume currents in median nerve compound action potential using magnetoneurography. Clin Neurophysiol 2023; 152:57-67. [PMID: 37307628 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2023.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2023] [Revised: 04/26/2023] [Accepted: 05/05/2023] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Reconstruct compound median nerve action currents using magnetoneurography to clarify the physiological characteristics of axonal and volume currents and their relationship to potentials. METHODS The median nerves of both upper arms of five healthy individuals were investigated. The propagating magnetic field of the action potential was recorded using magnetoneurography, reconstructed into a current, and analyzed. The currents were compared with the potentials recorded from multipolar surface electrodes. RESULTS Reconstructed currents could be clearly visualized. Axonal currents flowed forward or backward in the axon, arcing away from the depolarization zone, turning about the subcutaneous volume conductor, and returning to the depolarization zone. The zero-crossing latency of the axonal current was approximately the same as the peak of its volume current and the negative peak of the surface electrode potential. Volume current waveforms were proportional to the derivative of axonal ones. CONCLUSIONS Magnetoneurography allows the visualization and quantitative evaluation of action currents. The currents in axons and in volume conductors could be clearly discriminated with good quality. Their properties were consistent with previous neurophysiological findings. SIGNIFICANCE Magnetoneurography could be a novel tool for elucidating nerve physiology and pathophysiology.
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- Kentaro Nakayama
- Department of Neurology, Kansai Medical University, 2-5-1 Shinmachi, Hirakata, Osaka 573-1010, Japan
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- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Kansai Medical University, 2-5-1 Shinmachi, Hirakata, Osaka 573-1010, Japan; Department of Neurology, Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital, 2-1-1 Minatojima Minamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0047, Japan.
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- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Kansai Medical University, 2-5-1 Shinmachi, Hirakata, Osaka 573-1010, Japan
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- RICOH Futures BU, RICOH Company, Ltd., 2-3-10 Kandasurugadai Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0062, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Kansai Medical University, 2-5-1 Shinmachi, Hirakata, Osaka 573-1010, Japan
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- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Kansai Medical University, 2-5-1 Shinmachi, Hirakata, Osaka 573-1010, Japan
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- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Kansai Medical University, 2-5-1 Shinmachi, Hirakata, Osaka 573-1010, Japan
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- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Kansai Medical University, 2-5-1 Shinmachi, Hirakata, Osaka 573-1010, Japan
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- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Kansai Medical University, 2-5-1 Shinmachi, Hirakata, Osaka 573-1010, Japan
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- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Kansai Medical University, 2-5-1 Shinmachi, Hirakata, Osaka 573-1010, Japan
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- Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Kansai Medical University, 2-5-1 Shinmachi, Hirakata, Osaka 573-1010, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Kansai Medical University, 2-5-1 Shinmachi, Hirakata, Osaka 573-1010, Japan
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Bu Y, Prince J, Mojtahed H, Kimball D, Shah V, Coleman T, Sarkar M, Rao R, Huang M, Schwindt P, Borna A, Lerman I. Peripheral Nerve Magnetoneurography With Optically Pumped Magnetometers. Front Physiol 2022; 13:798376. [PMID: 35370794 PMCID: PMC8975546 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2022.798376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2021] [Accepted: 02/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Electrodiagnosis is routinely integrated into clinical neurophysiology practice for peripheral nerve disease diagnoses, such as neuropathy, demyelinating disorders, nerve entrapment/impingement, plexopathy, or radiculopathy. Measured with conventional surface electrodes, the propagation of peripheral nerve action potentials along a nerve is the result of ionic current flow which, according to Ampere’s Law, generates a small magnetic field that is also detected as an “action current” by magnetometers, such as superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) Magnetoencephalography (MEG) systems. Optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs) are an emerging class of quantum magnetic sensors with a demonstrated sensitivity at the 1 fT/√Hz level, capable of cortical action current detection. But OPMs were ostensibly constrained to low bandwidth therefore precluding their use in peripheral nerve electrodiagnosis. With careful OPM bandwidth characterization, we hypothesized OPMs may also detect compound action current signatures consistent with both Sensory Nerve Action Potential (SNAP) and the Hoffmann Reflex (H-Reflex). In as much, our work confirms OPMs enabled with expanded bandwidth can detect the magnetic signature of both the SNAP and H-Reflex. Taken together, OPMs now show potential as an emerging electrodiagnostic tool.
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- Yifeng Bu
- Jacobs School of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
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- Jacobs School of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
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- Jacobs School of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
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- Jacobs School of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
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- Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, San Diego State University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Jacobs School of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Radiology Imaging Laboratory, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
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- Quantum Information Sciences, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
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- Quantum Information Sciences, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States
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- Jacobs School of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
- Department of Anesthesiology, Center for Pain Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
- Veterans Health Administration, VA San Diego, Center for Stress and Mental Health, San Diego, CA, United States
- *Correspondence: Imanuel Lerman,
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Afra P. The advancement of magnetoneurography. Clin Neurophysiol 2020; 131:938-939. [PMID: 32014352 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2019.12.406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2019] [Accepted: 12/29/2019] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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- Pegah Afra
- Department of Neurology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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Thalamocortical Impulse Propagation and Information Transfer in EEG and MEG. J Clin Neurophysiol 2014; 31:253-60. [DOI: 10.1097/wnp.0000000000000048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Papadelis C, Leonardelli E, Staudt M, Braun C. Can magnetoencephalography track the afferent information flow along white matter thalamo-cortical fibers? Neuroimage 2012; 60:1092-105. [PMID: 22266410 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.01.054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2011] [Revised: 11/27/2011] [Accepted: 01/05/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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White matter thalamo-cortical fibers allow the communication of distant brain regions by carrying neuronal signals. Mapping non-invasively the information flow within white matter fibers is regarded so far as impossible. We investigated here whether information flow propagating along thalamo-cortical fibers can be detected using magnetoencephalography (MEG). Somatosensory evoked fields (SEFs) were recorded from healthy subjects and a patient with a unilateral, prenatally acquired, white matter lesion, which had induced the development of an abnormal trajectory of thalamo-cortical fibers. Equivalent current dipole (ECD) was used to model sources of SEFs. ECD at ~15 ms after stimulus onset was located within or close to the contralateral thalamus at the proximity of a hemodynamic response detected during a similar fMRI experiment. At the M20 peak latency, ECD was localized within the hand area of the contralateral primary somatosensory cortex (Brodmann area 3b (BA3b)). In healthy subjects, ECD changed dynamically position from thalamus to BA3b following a curved path, which was partially overlapping the thalamo-cortical fibers reconstructed by tractography. In the patient, ECD followed a similar path only in the intact hemisphere. In the affected hemisphere, the dipole trajectory circumnavigated the extended lesion on its way to the preserved primary somatosensory cortex--similar to the trajectory findings. Evidence from different methodological approaches converges on the conclusion that MEG can track the afferent information flow along thalamo-cortical fibers and in contrast to the traditional view can localize under presuppositions deep thalamic sources.
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- Christos Papadelis
- Center for Mind/Brain Sciences-CIMeC, University of Trento, Via delle Regole 101, I-38100 Mattarello, Italy.
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- Riitta Hari
- Brain Research Unit, Low Temperature Laboratory, Aalto University School of Science and Technology, AALTO, Espoo, Finland.
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Sato T, Adachi Y, Tomori M, Ishii S, Kawabata S, Sekihara K. Functional imaging of spinal cord electrical activity from its evoked magnetic field. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2010; 56:2452-60. [PMID: 19758849 DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2009.2025506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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This paper investigates dynamic source imaging of the spinal cord electrophysiological activity from its evoked magnetic field by applying the spatial filter version of standardized low-resolution brain electromagnetic tomography (sLORETA). Our computer simulation shows that the sLORETA-based spatial filter can reconstruct the four current sources typically associated with the elicitation of the spinal cord evoked magnetic field (SCEF). The results from animal experiments show that significant changes in the latency and intensity of the reconstructed volume current arise near the location of the artificial incomplete conduction block. The results from the human SCEF show that the SCEF source imaging can visualize the dynamics of the volume currents and other nerve electrical activity propagating along the human spinal cord. These experimental results demonstrate the potential of SCEF source imaging as a future clinical tool for diagnosing cervical spinal cord disorders.
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- Tomoya Sato
- Department of Systems Design and Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo 191-0065, Japan.
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Impulse propagation along thalamocortical fibers can be detected magnetically outside the human brain. J Neurosci 2009; 28:12535-8. [PMID: 19020045 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.3022-08.2008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Orchestrating cortical network activity with synchronous oscillations of neurons across distant regions of the brain underlies information processing in humans (Knight, 2007) and monkeys (Saalmann et al., 2007; Womelsdorf et al., 2007). Frequencies of oscillatory activities depend, to a considerable extent, on the length and conduction velocity of the tracts connecting the neural areas that participate in oscillations (Buzsáki, 2006). However, the impulse propagation along the fiber tracts in the white matter has never been visualized in humans. Here, we show, by recording magnetoencephalogram (MEG) following median nerve stimulation, that a magnetic field component, we labeled "M15," changes dynamically within 1.6-1.8 ms before the onset of magnetic M20 response generated from the primary somatosensory cortex. This new M15 component corresponds to the intracellular depolarizing action current in the thalamocortical fibers propagating with the mean conduction velocity of 29 m/s. The findings challenge the traditional view that MEG is blind to the activity of deep subcortical structures. We argue that the MEG technique holds the promise of providing novel information in impulse transmissions along not only the thalamocortical pathway but also other fiber tracts connecting distant brain areas in humans.
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Nakanishi K, Fujimoto Y, Tanaka N, Iwase Y, Inoue K, Ishida O, Ochi M. Visualization of temporal increase in compound nerve action magnetic fields in the human median nerve during ischemia. Neuroimage 2005; 25:642-5. [PMID: 15784443 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.11.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2004] [Revised: 05/26/2004] [Accepted: 11/30/2004] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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We studied the variation in the human median nerve activity during ischemia by measuring compound nerve action magnetic fields (CAFs). Temporal increases in the CAF during ischemia were successfully visualized on isofield contour maps. Intense paresthesias were induced after 29 +/- 5 s (mean +/- SD) of ischemia, which consistently reached a maximum after 4 min 55 +/- 12 s. The variations in CAFs were consistent with changes in sensory perception. The hyperexcitability in large myelinated axons can be visualized as temporary increases in CAF. These results are the first to demonstrate the efficacy of magnetic-recording techniques, which allow monitoring of changes in neural activity.
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- Kazuyoshi Nakanishi
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Programs for Applied Biomedicine, Division of Clinical Medical Science, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Kasumi 1-2-3, Minami-ku, Hiroshima 734-8551, Japan.
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Mackert BM. Magnetoneurography: theory and application to peripheral nerve disorders. Clin Neurophysiol 2004; 115:2667-76. [PMID: 15546775 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2004.07.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/23/2004] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Magnetoneurography (MNG) is a non-invasive method to trace and visualize three-dimensionally the propagation path of compound action currents (CAC) along peripheral nerves. The basic physical and physiological principle is the mapping of extremely weak magnetic fields generated by the intraaxonal longitudinal ion flows of evoked nerval CAC using SQUID sensors (Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices). During recent years, MNG protocols have been established which allow for a non-invasive spatiotemporal tracing of impulse propagation along peripheral nerves in humans and in particular along proximal nerve segments in a clinical setting. Thereby, the three-dimensional path, the local nerve conduction velocity, the length and strength of the CAC de- and repolarization phase have been reconstructed. First recordings in patients demonstrated that the method is sensitive enough to detect and to localize nerve conduction anomalities along nerve roots, as, e.g. caused by lumbosacral disc herniation. This review on MNG will focus on those studies which provide data from humans and thereby reveal perspectives for its future clinical applications.
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- Bruno-Marcel Mackert
- Neurophysics Group, Department of Neurology, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité-University Medicine Berlin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12200 Berlin, Germany.
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Nakanishi K, Mashiko T, Fujimoto Y, Tanaka N, Iwase Y, Ishida O, Ochi M. Wide-range visualization of compound nerve action magnetic fields in the human median and ulnar nerves from the forearm to Erb's point. Neurosci Lett 2004; 356:151-3. [PMID: 14746886 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2003.11.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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We successfully visualized the compound nerve action magnetic fields (CAFs) in the human median and ulnar nerves from the forearm to Erb's point. To observe the CAFs, we used a superconducting quantum interference device gradiometer system that was developed for human peripheral nerves. The CAFs were visualized as a quadrupole pattern consisting of leading and trailing dipoles. The CAFs propagated along the anatomical pathway and extended longitudinally in the proximal segment. The most reasonable explanation is that the peak separation in the trailing dipole appeared when the leading dipole reached the proximal segment after stimulation of the median nerve at the wrist. A temporal dispersion of the CAFs was suggested to be visualized.
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- Kazuyoshi Nakanishi
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Programs for Applied Biomedicine, Division of Clinical Medical Science, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, Kasumi 1-2-3, Minami-ku, Hiroshima 734-8551, Japan.
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Hoffmann JH, Klein A, van Leeuwen P, Hoormann J, Grönemeyer D. [Magnetoneurographic registration of evoked summation action fields over lumbar vertebrae following transcutaneous tibial nerve stimulation]. BIOMED ENG-BIOMED TE 2003; 47 Suppl 1 Pt 2:521-4. [PMID: 12465224 DOI: 10.1515/bmte.2002.47.s1b.521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Goal of this study was the development of a protocol for the registration of evoked magnetic fields over the lumbar spine using off-the-shelf equipment. Three subjects in a sitting position with their torso bent slightly forward were stimulated at the tibial nerve with a commercially available stimulator. Neuromagnetic fields were registered over a circular, 800 cm2 area of the lumbosacral spine using a 61-channel 4D-Neuroimaging biomagnetometer. After appropriate signal processing, dipolar magnetic fields with a field strength 5-17 fT peak-to-peak amplitude were detected in three out of four registrations. Location and orientation of these fields concurred with the expected evoked compound action currents along the course of the nerve fibers.
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- J H Hoffmann
- Grönemeyer Institut für Mikrotherapie, Bochum, Deutschland
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Mackert BM, Burghoff M, Hiss LH, Nordahn M, Marx P, Trahms L, Curio G. Magnetoneurography of evoked compound action currents in human cervical nerve roots. Clin Neurophysiol 2001; 112:330-5. [PMID: 11165538 DOI: 10.1016/s1388-2457(00)00530-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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OBJECTIVE A measurement protocol for magnetoneurography (MNG) is established which allows the non-invasive localization and tracing of evoked compound action currents propagating along cervical nerve roots in man. METHODS Inside a magnetically shielded room either both median or both ulnar nerves of healthy subjects were conventionally electrostimulated in alternation. Evoked magnetic responses were recorded using a multichannel SQUID-detector with a planar measuring area centered over the neck. Simultaneously, electric surface potentials were recorded using cervical bipolar electrode montages. RESULTS Upon median (ulnar) nerve stimulation somatosensory evoked magnetic fields up to 20 fT (10 fT) amplitude were detected propagating over the cervical transforaminal root entry zone, with corresponding electrical surface potentials of 1.5 microV (0.5 microV). Furthermore, the signal-to-noise ratio of the spatiotemporal magnetic field mappings in median nerve stimulation experiments allowed dipolar source reconstructions and tracing of the propagation of the compound action currents along nerve root fibers. CONCLUSION Magnetoneurography allows tracing of the propagation of evoked compound action currents along cervical roots in healthy subjects with millisecond temporal and high spatial resolution. Thus, MNG offers a sensitivity appropriate to serve as a clinical diagnostic tool for localizing focal neuropathies of cervical nerve roots.
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- B M Mackert
- Neurophysics Group, Klinikum Benjamin Franklin, Freie Universität, 12203, Berlin, Germany.
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Kakigi R, Hoshiyama M, Shimojo M, Naka D, Yamasaki H, Watanabe S, Xiang J, Maeda K, Lam K, Itomi K, Nakamura A. The somatosensory evoked magnetic fields. Prog Neurobiol 2000; 61:495-523. [PMID: 10748321 DOI: 10.1016/s0301-0082(99)00063-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 164] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Averaged magnetoencephalography (MEG) following somatosensory stimulation, somatosensory evoked magnetic field(s) (SEF), in humans are reviewed. The equivalent current dipole(s) (ECD) of the primary and the following middle-latency components of SEF following electrical stimulation within 80-100 ms are estimated in area 3b of the primary somatosensory cortex (SI), the posterior bank of the central sulcus, in the hemisphere contralateral to the stimulated site. Their sites are generally compatible with the homunculus which was reported by Penfield using direct cortical stimulation during surgery. SEF to passive finger movement is generated in area 3a or 2 of SI, unlike with electrical stimulation. Long-latency components with peaks of approximately 80-120 ms are recorded in the bilateral hemispheres and their ECD are estimated in the secondary somatosensory cortex (SII) in the bilateral hemispheres. We also summarized (1) the gating effects on SEF by interference tactile stimulation or movement applied to the stimulus site, (2) clinical applications of SEF in the fields of neurosurgery and neurology and (3) cortical plasticity (reorganization) of the SI. SEF specific to painful stimulation is also recorded following painful stimulation by CO(2) laser beam. Pain-specific components are recorded over 150 ms after the stimulus and their ECD are estimated in the bilateral SII and the limbic system. We introduced a newly-developed multi (12)-channel gradiometer system with the smallest and highest quality superconducting quantum interference device (micro-SQUID) available to non-invasively detect the magnetic fields of a human peripheral nerve. Clear nerve action fields (NAFs) were consistently recorded from all subjects.
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- R Kakigi
- Department of Integrative Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan.
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Mackert BM, Burghoff M, Hiss LH, Nordahn M, Trahms L, Curio G. Non-invasive magnetoneurography for 3D-monitoring of human compound action current propagation in deep brachial plexus. Neurosci Lett 2000; 289:33-6. [PMID: 10899402 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3940(00)01249-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Compound action current (CAC) propagation along nerve fibers running deep in the human brachial plexus was 3D-visualized based on non-invasive 49-channel superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) magnetoneurography. Spatio-temporal mappings over the upper thoracal quadrant of magnetic fields (<100 fT) evoked upon alternating median and ulnar nerve stimulation in seven healthy volunteers showed consistently smoothly propagating dipolar patterns for both the CAC depolarization and repolarization phases. Multipolar current source reconstructions (i) distinguished spatially CAC propagation pathways along either median or ulnar plexus fibers, allowed (ii) to calculate local conduction velocities ( approximately 56 m/s) and (iii) even to estimate the CAC extension along the nerve fibers (depolarization phase: approximately 11 cm). Thus, for deep proximal nerve segments magnetoneurography can provide a detailed tracing of neural activity which is a prerequisite to localize non-invasively focal nerve malfunctions.
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- B M Mackert
- Neurophysics Group, Department of Neurology, Klinikum Benjamin Franklin, Freie Universität Berlin, Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203, Berlin, Germany.
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Hoshiyama M, Kakigi R, Nagata O. Peripheral nerve conduction recorded by a micro gradiometer system (micro-SQUID) in humans. Neurosci Lett 1999; 272:199-202. [PMID: 10505615 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3940(99)00589-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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We developed a new multi (twelve) -channel gradiometer system with the smallest and highest quality superconducting quantum interference device (micro-SQUID). A very small distance (3.80 mm) between the sensor coils and the skin provides quite high spatial resolution. The actual whole image of the sensory nerve action fields (NAF) of the human median nerve at the wrist were successfully recorded following digital nerve stimulation by using the micro-SQUID. The NAF showed the biphasic waveform at each of the 12 channels, and the isomagnetic field map clearly showed the moving quadrupole pattern. The quadrupole comprised a dipole for depolarization followed by another dipole with the opposite direction for repolarization. The polarized length of the nerve obtained by reconstructing the magnetic field maps was approximately 17 cm, and the magnetic field complex moved along the nerve from the distal to the proximal part of the wrist at 58.7 m/s.
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- M Hoshiyama
- Department of Integrative Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan.
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Hashimoto I, Kimura T, Fukushima T, Iguchi Y, Saito Y, Terasaki O, Sakuma K. Reciprocal modulation of somatosensory evoked N20m primary response and high-frequency oscillations by interference stimulation. Clin Neurophysiol 1999; 110:1445-51. [PMID: 10454280 DOI: 10.1016/s1388-2457(99)00083-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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OBJECTIVES We examined whether the inverse relation between somatic evoked N20m primary response and high-frequency oscillations during a wake-sleep cycle (Hashimoto, I., Mashiko, T., Imada, T., Somatic evoked high-frequency magnetic oscillations reflect activity of inhibitory interneurons in the human somatosensory cortex, Electroenceph clin Neurophysiol 1996;100:189-203) holds for interference stimulation. METHODS Somatosensory evoked fields (SEFs) from 14 subjects were measured following electric median nerve stimulation at the wrist with, and without, concurrent brushing of the palm and fingers. SEFs were recorded with a wide bandpass (0.1-1200 Hz) and then N20m and high-frequency oscillations were separated by subsequent low-pass (< 300 Hz) and high-pass (> 300 Hz) filtering. RESULTS The N20m decreased dramatically in amplitude during interference stimulation. In contrast, the high-frequency oscillations moderately increased in number of peaks. CONCLUSIONS These results demonstrate the presence of an inverse relation between N20m and high-frequency oscillations for interference stimulation. We speculate that the high-frequency oscillations represent a localized activity of GABAergic inhibitory interneurons of layer 4, characterized by a high-frequency spike burst (200-1000 Hz) without adaptation, and that the continuous interference stimulation induces tonic excitation of the interneurons, leading to a facilitation of responses to the coherent afferent volley elicited by the median nerve stimulation (bottom-up mechanism). On the other hand, refractoriness of the pyramidal neurons caused directly by interference stimulation along with an enhanced feed-forward inhibition from the interneurons will lead to a decrease of N20m amplitude.
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- I Hashimoto
- Department of Psychophysiology, Tokyo Institute of Psychiatry, Japan.
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Masuda T, Endo H, Takeda T. Magnetic fields produced by single motor units in human skeletal muscles. Clin Neurophysiol 1999; 110:384-9. [PMID: 10363759 DOI: 10.1016/s1388-2457(98)00021-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To develop new non-invasive ways of analyzing human skeletal muscle function, biomagnetic measurement was applied to the vastus lateralis and vastus medialis of 3 healthy adult males using a 64 channel superconducting quantum interference device system. METHODS Discharges from single motor units were detected by simultaneously recorded surface electromyography. Magnetic signals were averaged 64-158 times at zero-crossing timing in the surface electromyographic signal. RESULTS Six motor units detected in the 3 subjects produced large magnetic fields with peak-to-peak amplitudes of 1-2 pT. Magnetomyographic isofield maps showed current sources arising from motor endplate regions and propagating in directions opposite to fiber ends. The absolute intensity of current moments in muscle fibers within motor units was estimated based on dipole fitting. The estimated moment was 23.9-114.3 nAm for repolarization dipole. Dividing these moment values by the typical dipole moment of 0.286 nAm in a single muscle fiber, the number of muscle fibers in motor unit was estimated to be 84-400. CONCLUSIONS Magnetic recording may provide a new non-invasive way of analyzing and diagnosing human muscle function.
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- T Masuda
- National Institute of Bioscience and Human Technology, Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, MITI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
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Mackert BM, Curio G, Burghoff M, Trahms L, Marx P. Magnetoneurographic 3D localization of conduction blocks in patients with unilateral S1 root compression. ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY AND CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY 1998; 109:315-20. [PMID: 9751294 DOI: 10.1016/s0924-980x(98)00024-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Tibial nerve somatosensory evoked magnetic fields (tSEFs) over the lower back reflect the propagation of compound action currents along fibers of plexus, nerve roots and cauda equina. One clinical perspective for this 'magnetoneurography' is the non-invasive 3D localization of focal slowing or blocks of conduction. Here, first tSEF mappings in 3 consecutive patients with acute unilateral S1 nerve root compression are reported. METHODS Right and left tibial nerves were electrostimulated in alternation; tSEF responses were recorded using a multichannel SQUID-detector; additionally, spinal and cortical SEP, F-wave and H-reflex studies were performed. RESULTS In all patients an intraindividual side-to-side comparison of spinal tSEF mappings was obtained: using a dipolar source model compound action currents could be visualized propagating along plexus, nerve roots and cauda equina on the non-affected side whereas on the affected side normally-propagating dipolar field patterns could be recorded only distal to the spinal transforaminal root entrance; this reflects focal slowing or block of conduction in nerve root fibers as indicated by the SEP, F-wave and H-reflex study results. CONCLUSIONS With a registration time of 15 min a 3D localization of proximal slowing or block of conduction was successfully performed in patients suffering from acute nerve root lesions.
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- B M Mackert
- Department of Neurology, Klinikum Benjamin Franklin, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
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Lang G, Shahani U, Weir AI, Maas P, Pegrum CM, Donaldson GB. Neuromagnetic recordings of the human peripheral nerve with planar SQUID gradiometers. Phys Med Biol 1998; 43:2379-84. [PMID: 9725611 DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/43/8/027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Magnetic fields produced by a travelling volley in the human ulnar nerve have been successfully measured in a lightly shielded environment. Recordings of the tangential component of the magnetic field were made using a planar second-order gradiometer integrated with a first-order gradiometric superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID). Devices were fabricated in our clean-room facility at the University of Strathclyde and measurements taken in an eddy-current shielded room at the Wellcome Biomagnetism Unit. We use no additional shielding and no electronic differencing or field-nulling techniques. Evoked magnetic fields of 60 fT peak-to-peak were obtained after 1536 averages but they could be seen easily as early as 512 averages. Measurements were made over four points above the ulnar nerve on the upper arm and from these the conduction velocity was calculated as 60 m s(-1).
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- G Lang
- Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
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Mackert BM, Curio G, Burghoff M, Marx P. Mapping of tibial nerve evoked magnetic fields over the lower spine. ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY AND CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY 1997; 104:322-7. [PMID: 9246069 DOI: 10.1016/s0168-5597(97)00019-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Using a low-noise 49-channel dc-SQUID system spinal somatosensory evoked fields (SEF) were recorded which were generated by compound action currents evoked upon posterior tibial nerve stimulation. The SEF mapping showed the action current propagation along the sciatic nerve, lumbosacral plexus and cauda equina in parallel to simultaneously recorded electrical potentials (SEP). For a reliable intraindividual side-to-side comparison of spinal SEFs the right and left tibial nerves were stimulated in alternating order; this procedure minimizes artifactual inter-nerve SEF map differences due to eventual patient-to-sensor displacements which might occur in serial measurements. These large-area lumbar SEF mappings open up several clinical perspectives for magnetoneurography, in particular with respect to the 3D-localization of proximal conduction blocks.
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- B M Mackert
- Department of Neurology, Universitätsklinikum Benjamin Franklin, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
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Hashimoto I, Mashiko T, Imada T. Somatic evoked high-frequency magnetic oscillations reflect activity of inhibitory interneurons in the human somatosensory cortex. ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY AND CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY 1996; 100:189-203. [PMID: 8681860 DOI: 10.1016/0168-5597(95)00244-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 193] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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High-frequency potential oscillations in the range of 300-900 Hz have recently been shown to concur with the primary response (N20) of the somatosensory cortex in awake humans. However, the physiological mechanisms of the high-frequency oscillations remained undetermined. We addressed the issue by analyzing magnetic fields during wakefulness and sleep over the left hemisphere to right median nerve stimulation with a wide bandpass (0.1-2000 Hz) recording with subsequent high-pass (> 300 Hz) and low-pass (< 300 Hz) filtering. With wide bandpass recordings, high-frequency magnetic oscillations with the main signal energy at 580-780 Hz were superimposed on the N20m during wakefulness. Isofield mapping at each peak of the high-pass filtered and isolated high-frequency oscillations showed a dipolar pattern and the estimated source for these peaks was the primary somatosensory cortex (area 3b) very close to that for the N20m peak. During sleep, the high-frequency oscillations showed dramatic diminution in amplitude while the N20m amplitude exhibited a moderate increment. This reciprocal relation between the high-frequency oscillations and the N20m during a wake-sleep cycle suggests that they represent different generator substrates. We speculate that the high-frequency oscillations represent a localized activity of the GABAergic inhibitory interneurons of layer 4, which have been shown in animal experiments to respond monosynaptically to thalamo-cortical input with a high-frequency (600-900 Hz) burst of short duration spikes. On the other hand, the underlying N20m represents activity of pyramidal neurons which receive monosynaptic excitatory input from the thalamus as well as a feed-forward inhibition from the interneurons.
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- I Hashimoto
- Department of Psychophysiology, Tokyo Institute of Psychiatry, Japan
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Curio G, Drung D, Koch H, Müller W, Steinhoff U, Trahms L, Shen YQ, Vase P, Freltoft T. Magnetometry of evoked fields from human peripheral nerve, brachial plexus and primary somatosensory cortex using a liquid nitrogen cooled superconducting quantum interference device. Neurosci Lett 1996; 206:204-6. [PMID: 8710187 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-3940(96)12456-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs) can be used to detect neuromagnetic fields evoked in the peripheral and central nervous system. Up to now, such measurements had to be based on SQUIDs with a low critical temperature (Tc) requiring liquid helium cooling. Recent improvements in high-Tc SQUID technology relying on liquid nitrogen cooling led to a significant reduction in the system's noise level. Hare, first high-Tc recordings of weak neuromagnetic fields are demonstrated. In particular, along the entire somatosensory afferent pathway including peripheral nerves, brachial plexus and primary somatosensory neocortex evoked neuromagnetic activities were detected using conventional recording parameters for bandwidth and number of averages. This opens up a wide perspective for cost-effective high-Tc magnetometry in clinical neuroscience.
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- G Curio
- Department of Neurology, Klinikum Benjamin Franklin, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
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Rechnitz GA, Babb CW. Biomagnetic neurosensors. Curr Opin Biotechnol 1996; 7:55-9. [PMID: 8742377 DOI: 10.1016/s0958-1669(96)80095-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Non-invasive measurement of the neuromodulatory activity of certain analytes is now possible through the use of biomagnetic stimulation and detection techniques. The timely development of room-temperature instrumentation and of more effective techniques for coupling neurons to transducers are the critical elements for rapid progress in this field.
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- G A Rechnitz
- Department of Chemistry, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu 96822-2275, USA
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Hashimoto I, Mashiko T, Mizuta T, Imada T, Iwase Y, Okazaki H, Yoshikawa K. Multichannel detection of magnetic compound action fields with stimulation of the index and little fingers. ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY AND CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY 1995; 97:102-13. [PMID: 7537202 DOI: 10.1016/0924-980x(94)00287-h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Magnetic compound action fields (CAFs) over the right arm were measured from 63 sensor positions with two 7-channel SQUID gradiometer systems following electrical stimulation of the index and little fingers as well as the ring finger separately. The wave forms of the CAFs were primarily biphasic, corresponding to the depolarization and repolarization currents of the stimulated nerves. Maximum amplitudes of the CAFs were 60-140 fT for the index finger stimulation and 40-90 fT for the little finger stimulation. The field mapping of the CAFs revealed a propagating quadrupolar pattern with different distributions for the index and little fingers. The results agree with the anatomical location of the median and ulnar nerves for the index and little finger stimulation respectively. The isofield maps, due to ring finger stimulation, showed complex patterns as a result of simultaneous activation of the median and ulnar nerves. By comparing the amplitudes of the maxima of the CAFs due to index finger stimulation with those after median nerve stimulation at the wrist, the numerical ratios of the constituent digital nerve fibers for the index finger within the median nerve at the wrist were estimated. The ratios of 0.14-0.41 (mean 0.27), determined with measurement of the CAFs, are fairly consistent with those calculated from the reported histological data.
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- I Hashimoto
- Department of Psychophysiology, Tokyo Institute of Psychiatry, Japan
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Hashimoto I, Mashiko T, Mizuta T, Imada T, Iwase K, Okazaki H. Visualization of a moving quadrupole with magnetic measurements of peripheral nerve action fields. ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY AND CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY 1994; 93:459-67. [PMID: 7529697 DOI: 10.1016/0168-5597(94)90154-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Magnetic compound action fields (CAFs) over the right arm were measured from 63 sensor positions with two 7-channel SQUID gradiometer systems following electrical stimulation of the median nerve at the wrist. The field mapping of the CAFs revealed a propagating quadrupolar pattern with the leading depolarization and trailing repolarization fronts. The average distribution of the CAFs in the longitudinal direction was 9.0 cm in length for the depolarization field and 7.3 cm for the repolarization field in good agreement with a theoretical prediction based on the duration (3 msec) of the CAFs and the conduction velocity of the nerve (50 m/sec). The distance between the maxima of the depolarization front and the minima of the repolarization front was 6.3 cm. This spatial separation of the leading and trailing dipole locations suggests in part mutual cancellation of the fields with opposite polarity at or near the depolarized segment of nerve fibers.
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- I Hashimoto
- Department of Psychophysiology, Tokyo Institute of Psychiatry, Japan
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Rossini PM, Martino G, Narici L, Pasquarelli A, Peresson M, Pizzella V, Tecchio F, Torrioli G, Romani GL. Short-term brain 'plasticity' in humans: transient finger representation changes in sensory cortex somatotopy following ischemic anesthesia. Brain Res 1994; 642:169-77. [PMID: 8032877 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(94)90919-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Transient rearrangements of finger representation in primary somatosensory cortex induced by an anesthetic block of the sensory information from adjacent fingers have been shown invasively in animals. Such a phenomenon has been now replicated in seven healthy human volunteers. Somatosensory Evoked Fields (SEFs) have been recorded during separate electrical stimulation of the 1st, 3rd, or 5th finger. Recordings were obtained in control conditions (stage A), following complete ischemic anesthesia of the 4 non-stimulated fingers (stage B), and after regaining sensation (stage C). SEFs were recorded using a 28-channel DC-SQUID magnetometer; a single position of the sensor was enough to identify the source of N20m, P30m and following components using the Equivalent Current Dipole (ECD) model. The amount of afferent input during stages A through C was monitored with surface electrodes placed on the nerve at wrist and elbow. No variation of the nerve compound potential was observed during stages A through C. In stage A, the localizing algorithm was able to discriminate the individual finger representation in accordance with the somatotopic organisation of the sensory homunculus. It was observed that the ECDs responsible for the cortical responses from the unanesthetized finger were significantly changing following a relatively brief period of sensory deprivation from the adjacent fingers. Such changes of the ECDs with respect to the control conditions were characterized by an increase in strength and deepening for the middle finger, and by a shift on the coronal plane for the thumb and the little finger (medial for the former, lateral for the latter). Such changes became progressively evident in stage B, but were persisting in stage C.
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- P M Rossini
- Divisione di Neurologia-Ospedale, Fatebenefratelli, Isola Tiberina, Rome, Italy
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Curio G, Reill L, Sandfort J, Erné SN, Scheer J, Stehr R, Trahms L. Nerve, plexus and spinal cord: possible targets for non-invasive neuromagnetic measurements in man. Physiol Meas 1993; 14 Suppl 4A:A91-4. [PMID: 8274992 DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/14/4a/016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Somatosensory evoked neuromagnetic fields are recorded from peripheral nerves in the upper arm, from plexus brachialis at the ventral and dorsal thorax and from the dorsal horn of the cervical spinal cord ('P13m') at the upper lateral neck. Some perspectives for clinical applications are suggested.
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- G Curio
- Department of Neurology, Klinikum Steglitz, Freie Universität Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany
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Curio G, Erné SN, Burghoff M, Wolff KD, Pilz A. Non-invasive neuromagnetic monitoring of nerve and muscle injury currents. ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY AND CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY 1993; 89:154-60. [PMID: 7686847 DOI: 10.1016/0168-5597(93)90128-c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Structural damage inflicted on membranes of excitable cells may evoke quasi-DC injury currents driven by the transmembrane resting potential gradient. In contrast to the usually invasive electrophysiological approaches, superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) measure the concomitant weak biomagnetic fields non-invasively as is shown here for acutely excised rat nerves or muscles. Analysis of the field distributions showed slowly decaying equivalent current dipole moments in the nanoampmeter range as generated by microamp nerve injury currents extending intra-axonally over millimeter distances. The geometric and kinetic parameters of this experimental design may allow in vivo recordings in human patients.
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- G Curio
- Dept. of Neurology, Universitätsklinikum Steglitz, Berlin, Germany
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Curio G, Erné S, Sandfort J, Scheer J, Stehr R, Trahms L. Exploratory mapping of evoked neuromagnetic activity from human peripheral nerve, brachial plexus and spinal cord. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/0168-5597(91)90054-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Hashimoto I, Odaka K, Gatayama T, Yokoyama S. Multichannel measurements of magnetic compound action fields of the median nerve in man. ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY AND CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY 1991; 81:332-6. [PMID: 1718718 DOI: 10.1016/0168-5597(91)90021-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Magnetic compound action fields (CAFs) evoked by electrical stimulation of the median nerve at the wrist were recorded with 7-channel 2nd-order SQUID gradiometers. CAFs measured over the elbow and upper arm were biphasic with field patterns and polarities corresponding to the depolarization and repolarization fronts of the action potential volley.
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- I Hashimoto
- Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Metropolitan Hospital, Fuchu, Japan
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Wijesinghe RS. A mathematical model for calculating the vector magnetic field of a single muscle fiber. Math Biosci 1991; 103:245-74. [PMID: 1804447 DOI: 10.1016/0025-5564(91)90055-n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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A mathematical model is described for calculating the volume-conducted magnetic field from active muscle fibers in an anisotropic bundle. With earlier models, the azimuthal magnetic field of a nerve bundle was calculated and the results were compared with the fields measured by toroidal pickup coils. The present model is capable of evaluating all three of the magnetic field components and is thus applicable for analyzing SQUID magnetometer recordings of fields from a muscle bundle. The component of the magnetic field parallel to the fiber axis is more than an order of magnitude smaller than either of the other two components. The amplitude of the magnetic signal is strongly dependent upon the anisotropy of the muscle bundle, the intracellular conductivity, the radius of the muscle fiber, the radius of the muscle bundle, and the location of the fiber in the muscle bundle. The peak-to-peak amplitude of the single-muscle-fiber action field increases linearly with increasing intracellular conductivity, as the square of the radius of the muscle fiber, and exponentially with the distance between the location of the fiber and the center of the bundle.
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- R S Wijesinghe
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235
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Hari R. Magnetic evoked fields of the human brain: basic principles and applications. ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY AND CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY. SUPPLEMENT 1990; 41:3-12. [PMID: 2289443 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-444-81352-7.50005-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- R Hari
- Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland
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Trahms L, Erné SN, Trontelj Z, Curio G, Aust P. Biomagnetic functional localization of a peripheral nerve in man. Biophys J 1989; 55:1145-53. [PMID: 2765652 PMCID: PMC1330580 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(89)82911-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023] Open
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The first detection of the magnetic field of a stimulated peripheral nerve in man is presented. The measurement was performed noninvasively and in vivo on a healthy subject. The spatio-temporal field distribution is utilized to calculate the location of bioelectric activity on the basis of the equivalent current dipole model. The localization of the active nerve tissue is confirmed by a computer tomography image of the upper arm cross-section. Furthermore, a calculation of the total current distribution in the nerve explains the observed morphology of the signal.
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- L Trahms
- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Institut Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany
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