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Liu K, Wang Z, Yu Z, Xiao B, Yu H, Wu W. WRA-MTSI: A Robust Extended Source Imaging Algorithm Based on Multi-Trial EEG. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2023; 70:2809-2821. [PMID: 37027281 DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2023.3265376] [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: 04/08/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Reconstructing brain activities from electroencephalography (EEG) signals is crucial for studying brain functions and their abnormalities. However, since EEG signals are nonstationary and vulnerable to noise, brain activities reconstructed from single-trial EEG data are often unstable, and significant variability may occur across different EEG trials even for the same cognitive task. METHODS In an effort to leverage the shared information across the EEG data of multiple trials, this paper proposes a multi-trial EEG source imaging method based on Wasserstein regularization, termed WRA-MTSI. In WRA-MTSI, Wasserstein regularization is employed to perform multi-trial source distribution similarity learning, and the structured sparsity constraint is enforced to enable accurate estimation of the source extents, locations and time series. The resulting optimization problem is solved by a computationally efficient algorithm based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). RESULTS Both numerical simulations and real EEG data analysis demonstrate that WRA-MTSI outperforms existing single-trial ESI methods (e.g., wMNE, LORETA, SISSY, and SBL) in mitigating the influence of artifacts in EEG data. Moreover, WRA-MTSI yields superior performance compared to other state-of-the-art multi-trial ESI methods (e.g., group lasso, the dirty model, and MTW) in estimating source extents. CONCLUSION AND SIGNIFICANCE WRA-MTSI may serve as an effective robust EEG source imaging method in the presence of multi-trial noisy EEG data.
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Zhang S, Qin Y, Wang J, Yu Y, Wu L, Zhang T. Noninvasive Electrical Stimulation Neuromodulation and Digital Brain Technology: A Review. Biomedicines 2023; 11:1513. [PMID: 37371609 PMCID: PMC10295338 DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines11061513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2023] [Revised: 05/17/2023] [Accepted: 05/22/2023] [Indexed: 06/29/2023] Open
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We review the research progress on noninvasive neural regulatory systems through system design and theoretical guidance. We provide an overview of the development history of noninvasive neuromodulation technology, focusing on system design. We also discuss typical cases of neuromodulation that use modern noninvasive electrical stimulation and the main limitations associated with this technology. In addition, we propose a closed-loop system design solution of the "time domain", "space domain", and "multi-electrode combination". For theoretical guidance, this paper provides an overview of the "digital brain" development process used for noninvasive electrical-stimulation-targeted modeling and the development of "digital human" programs in various countries. We also summarize the core problems of the existing "digital brain" used for noninvasive electrical-stimulation-targeted modeling according to the existing achievements and propose segmenting the tissue. For this, the tissue parameters of a multimodal image obtained from a fresh cadaver were considered as an index. The digital projection of the multimodal image of the brain of a living individual was implemented, following which the segmented tissues could be reconstructed to obtain a "digital twin brain" model with personalized tissue structure differences. The "closed-loop system" and "personalized digital twin brain" not only enable the noninvasive electrical stimulation of neuromodulation to achieve the visualization of the results and adaptive regulation of the stimulation parameters but also enable the system to have individual differences and more accurate stimulation.
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- Shuang Zhang
- The School of Artificial Intelligence, Neijiang Normal University, Neijiang 641000, China
- The School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610056, China
- The NJNU-OMNISKY Smart Medical Engineering Applications Joint Laboratory, Neijiang Normal University, Neijiang 641004, China
- The High Field Magnetic Resonance Brain Imaging Laboratory of Sichuan, Chengdu 610056, China
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- The School of Artificial Intelligence, Neijiang Normal University, Neijiang 641000, China
- The NJNU-OMNISKY Smart Medical Engineering Applications Joint Laboratory, Neijiang Normal University, Neijiang 641004, China
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- The School of Artificial Intelligence, Neijiang Normal University, Neijiang 641000, China
- The NJNU-OMNISKY Smart Medical Engineering Applications Joint Laboratory, Neijiang Normal University, Neijiang 641004, China
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- The School of Artificial Intelligence, Neijiang Normal University, Neijiang 641000, China
- The NJNU-OMNISKY Smart Medical Engineering Applications Joint Laboratory, Neijiang Normal University, Neijiang 641004, China
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- The School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610056, China
- The High Field Magnetic Resonance Brain Imaging Laboratory of Sichuan, Chengdu 610056, China
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- The School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610056, China
- The High Field Magnetic Resonance Brain Imaging Laboratory of Sichuan, Chengdu 610056, China
- The Sichuan Institute for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Chengdu 610056, China
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Qu T, Jin J, Xu R, Wang X, Cichocki A. Riemannian distance based channel selection and feature extraction combining discriminative time-frequency bands and Riemannian tangent space for MI-BCIs. J Neural Eng 2022; 19. [PMID: 36126643 DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/ac9338] [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: 04/22/2022] [Accepted: 09/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Motor imagery-based brain computer interfaces (MI-BCIs) have been widely researched because they do not demand external stimuli and have a high degree of maneuverability. In most scenarios, superabundant selected channels, fixed time windows, and frequency bands would certainly affect the performance of MI-BCIs due to the neurophysiological diversities between different individuals. In this study, we tended to effectively use the Riemannian geometry of spatial covariance matrix to extract more robust features and thus enhance the decoding efficiency. APPROACH First, we propose a Riemannian distance-based EEG channel selection method (RDCS), which preliminarily reduces the information redundancy in the first stage. Second, we extract discriminative Riemannian Tangent Space features of EEG signals of selected channels from the most discriminant time-frequency bands (DTFRTS) to further enhance decoding accuracy for MI-BCIs. Finally, we trained a support vector machine (SVM) model with a linear kernel to classify our extracted discriminative Riemannian features and evaluated our proposed method using publicly available BCI Competition Ⅳ dataset Ⅰ (DS1) and Competition Ⅲ dataset Ⅲa (DS2). MAIN RESULTS The experimental results showed that the average classification accuracy with the selected 10-channel EEG signals of our method is 88.1% and 91.6% in DS1 and DS2 respectively. The average improvements are 24.3% & 27.1% on DS1 and 4.4% & 14.2% on DS2 for 10 & 20 selected channels, respectively. SIGNIFICANCE These results showed that our proposed method is a promising candidate for performance improvement of MI-BCIs.
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- Tingnan Qu
- Key Laboratory of Advanced Control and Optimization for Chemical Processes Ministry of Education, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai, 200237, CHINA
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Control and Optimization for Chemical Processes Ministry of Education, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai 200237, Shanghai, Shanghai, 200237, CHINA
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- Guger Technologies OG, Research and Software Developmentg.tec - Guger Technologies Sierningstrasse 14, 4521 Schiedlberg, Graz, 8020, AUSTRIA
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Control and Optimization for Chemical Processes Ministry of Education, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai, Shanghai, 200237, CHINA
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- Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Bolshoy Boulevard 30, bld. 1 Moscow, Russia 121205, Skolkovo, Moskovskaâ, 121205, RUSSIAN FEDERATION
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Sorkhabi MM, Denison T. A neurostimulator system for real, sham, and multi-target transcranial magnetic stimulation. J Neural Eng 2022; 19:10.1088/1741-2552/ac60c9. [PMID: 35325879 PMCID: PMC7614713 DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/ac60c9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2021] [Accepted: 03/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Objective.Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a clinically effective therapeutic instrument used to modulate neural activity. Despite three decades of research, two challenging issues remain, the possibility of changing the (a) stimulated spot and (b) stimulation type (real or sham) without physically moving the coil. In this study, a second-generation programmable TMS device with advanced stimulus shaping is introduced that uses a five-level cascaded H-bridge inverter and phase-shifted pulse-width modulation. The principal idea of this research is to obtain real, sham, and multi-locus stimulation using the same TMS system.Approach.We propose a two-channel modulation-based magnetic pulse generator and a novel coil arrangement, consisting of two circular coils with a physical distance of 20 mm between the coils and a control method for modifying the effective stimulus intensity, which leads to the live steerability of the target and type of stimulation.Main results.Based on the measured system performance, the stimulation profile can be steered ±20 mm along a line from the centroid of the coil locations by modifying the modulation index.Significance.The proposed system supports electronic control of the stimulation spot without physical coil movement, resulting in tunable modulation of targets, which is a crucial step towards automated TMS machines.
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- Majid Memarian Sorkhabi
- MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3TH, UK
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- MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3TH, UK
- Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PJ, UK
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Moharamzadeh N, Motie Nasrabadi A. A fuzzy sensitivity analysis approach to estimate brain effective connectivity and its application to epileptic seizure detection. BIOMED ENG-BIOMED TE 2021; 67:19-32. [PMID: 34953180 DOI: 10.1515/bmt-2021-0058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2021] [Accepted: 11/26/2021] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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The brain is considered to be the most complicated organ in human body. Inferring and quantification of effective (causal) connectivity among regions of the brain is an important step in characterization of its complicated functions. The proposed method is comprised of modeling multivariate time series with Adaptive Neurofuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) and carrying out a sensitivity analysis using Fuzzy network parameters as a new approach to introduce a connectivity measure for detecting causal interactions between interactive input time series. The results of simulations indicate that this method is successful in detecting causal connectivity. After validating the performance of the proposed method on synthetic linear and nonlinear interconnected time series, it is applied to epileptic intracranial Electroencephalography (EEG) signals. The result of applying the proposed method on Freiburg epileptic intracranial EEG data recorded during seizure shows that the proposed method is capable of discriminating between the seizure and non-seizure states of the brain.
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- Nader Moharamzadeh
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran
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Jia T, Mo L, Li C, Liu A, Li Z, Ji L. 5 Hz rTMS improves motor-imagery based BCI classification performance. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2021; 2021:6116-6120. [PMID: 34892512 DOI: 10.1109/embc46164.2021.9630102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Brain-computer interface (BCI) based rehabilitation has been proven a promising method facilitating motor recovery. Recognizing motor intention is crucial for realizing BCI rehabilitation training. Event-related desynchronization (ERD) is a kind of electroencephalogram (EEG) inherent characteristics associated with motor intention. However, due to brain deficits poststroke, some patients are not able to generate ERD, which discourages them to be involved in BCI rehabilitation training. To boost ERD during motor imagery (MI), this paper investigates the effects of high-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on BCI classification performance. Eleven subjects participated in this study. The experiment consisted of two conditions: rTMS + MI versus sham rTMS + MI, which were arranged on different days. MI tests with 64-channel EEG recording were arranged immediately before and after rTMS and sham rTMS. Time-frequency analysis were utilized to measure ERD changes. Common spatial pattern was used to extract features and linear discriminant analysis was used to calculate offline classification accuracies. Paired-sample t-test and Wilcoxon signed rank tests with post-hoc analysis were used to compare performance before and after stimulation. Statistically stronger ERD (-13.93±12.99%) was found after real rTMS compared with ERD (-5.71±21.25%) before real rTMS (p<0.05). Classification accuracy after real rTMS (70.71±10.32%) tended to be higher than that before real rTMS (66.50±8.48%) (p<0.1). However, no statistical differences were found after sham stimulation. This research provides an effective method in improving BCI performance by utilizing neural modulation.Clinical Relevance- This study offers a promising treatment for patients who cannot be recruited in BCI rehabilitation training due to poor BCI classification performance.
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Spinal cord injury (SCI) destroys the sensorimotor pathway and blocks the information flow between the peripheral nerve and the brain, resulting in autonomic function loss. Numerous studies have explored the effects of obstructed information flow on brain structure and function and proved the extensive plasticity of the brain after SCI. Great progress has also been achieved in therapeutic strategies for SCI to restore the "re-innervation" of the cerebral cortex to the limbs to some extent. Although no thorough research has been conducted, the changes of brain structure and function caused by "re-domination" have been reported. This article is a review of the recent research progress on local structure, functional changes, and circuit reorganization of the cerebral cortex after SCI. Alterations of structure and electrical activity characteristics of brain neurons, features of brain functional reorganization, and regulation of brain functions by reconfigured information flow were also explored. The integration of brain function is the basis for the human body to exercise complex/fine movements and is intricately and widely regulated by information flow. Hence, its changes after SCI and treatments should be considered.
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- Can Zhao
- Institute of Rehabilitation Engineering, China Rehabilitation Science Institute, Beijing, China
- School of Rehabilitation, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Biomaterials and Neural Regeneration, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Orthopedics, The First Medical Center of PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Biomaterials and Neural Regeneration, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China
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Sohrabpour A, He B. Exploring the extent of source imaging: Recent advances in noninvasive electromagnetic brain imaging. CURRENT OPINION IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING 2021; 18. [PMID: 36406740 PMCID: PMC9674028 DOI: 10.1016/j.cobme.2021.100277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Electrophysiological source imaging (ESI) has been successfully employed in many brain imaging applications during the last 20 years. ESI estimates of underlying brain networks provide millisecond resolution of dynamic brain processes; yet, it remains to be a challenge to further improve the spatial resolution of ESI modality, in particular on its capability of imaging the extent of underlying brain sources. In this review, we discuss the recent developments in signal processing and machine learning that have made it possible to image the extent, i.e. size, of underlying brain sources noninvasively, using scalp electromagnetic measurements from electroencephalogram (EEG) and magnetoencephalogram (MEG) recordings.
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- Abbas Sohrabpour
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
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Yu K, Niu X, He B. Neuromodulation Management of Chronic Neuropathic Pain in The Central Nervous system. ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS 2020; 30:1908999. [PMID: 34335132 PMCID: PMC8323399 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201908999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2019] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Neuromodulation is becoming one of the clinical tools for treating chronic neuropathic pain by transmitting controlled physical energy to the pre-identified neural targets in the central nervous system. Its nature of drug-free, non-addictive and improved targeting have attracted increasing attention among neuroscience research and clinical practices. This article provides a brief overview of the neuropathic pain and pharmacological routines for treatment, summarizes both the invasive and non-invasive neuromodulation modalities for pain management, and highlights an emerging brain stimulation technology, transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) with a focus on ultrasound transducer devices and the achieved neuromodulation effects and applications on pain management. Practical considerations of spatial guidance for tFUS are discussed for clinical applications. The safety of transcranial ultrasound neuromodulation and its future prospectives on pain management are also discussed.
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
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A framework for seizure detection using effective connectivity, graph theory, and multi-level modular network. Biomed Signal Process Control 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2020.101878] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Edelman BJ, Meng J, Gulachek N, Cline CC, He B. Exploring Cognitive Flexibility With a Noninvasive BCI Using Simultaneous Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials and Sensorimotor Rhythms. IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng 2019; 26:936-947. [PMID: 29752228 DOI: 10.1109/tnsre.2018.2817924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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EEG-based brain-computer interface (BCI) technology creates non-biological pathways for conveying a user's mental intent solely through noninvasively measured neural signals. While optimizing the performance of a single task has long been the focus of BCI research, in order to translate this technology into everyday life, realistic situations, in which multiple tasks are performed simultaneously, must be investigated. In this paper, we explore the concept of cognitive flexibility, or multitasking, within the BCI framework by utilizing a 2-D cursor control task, using sensorimotor rhythms (SMRs), and a four-target visual attention task, using steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEPs), both individually and simultaneously. We found no significant difference between the accuracy of the tasks when executing them alone (SMR-57.9% ± 15.4% and SSVEP-59.0% ± 14.2%) and simultaneously (SMR-54.9% ± 17.2% and SSVEP-57.5% ± 15.4%). These modest decreases in performance were supported by similar, non-significant changes in the electrophysiology of the SSVEP and SMR signals. In this sense, we report that multiple BCI tasks can be performed simultaneously without a significant deterioration in performance; this finding will help drive these systems toward realistic daily use in which a user's cognition will need to be involved in multiple tasks at once.
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Niu X, Yu K, He B. On the Neuromodulatory Pathways of the In Vivo Brain by Means of Transcranial Focused Ultrasound. CURRENT OPINION IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING 2018; 8:61-69. [PMID: 31223668 PMCID: PMC6585998 DOI: 10.1016/j.cobme.2018.10.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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For last decade, low-intensity transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) has been rapidly developed for a myriad of successful applications in neuromodulation. tFUS possesses high spatial resolution, focality and depth penetration as a noninvasive neuromodulation tool. Despite the promise, confounding activation can be observed in rodents when stimulation parameters are not selected carefully. Here we summarize the existing classes of observations for ultrasound neuromodulation: ultrasound directly activates a localized area, or ultrasound indirectly activates auditory pathways, which further propagates to other cortical networks. We also present control in vivo animal studies, which suggest that underlying tFUS brain modulation is characterized by localized activation independent of auditory networks activations.
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- Xiaodan Niu
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
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Brain activity and connectivity are distributed in the three-dimensional space and evolve in time. It is important to image brain dynamics with high spatial and temporal resolution. Electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) are noninvasive measurements associated with complex neural activations and interactions that encode brain functions. Electrophysiological source imaging estimates the underlying brain electrical sources from EEG and MEG measurements. It offers increasingly improved spatial resolution and intrinsically high temporal resolution for imaging large-scale brain activity and connectivity on a wide range of timescales. Integration of electrophysiological source imaging and functional magnetic resonance imaging could further enhance spatiotemporal resolution and specificity to an extent that is not attainable with either technique alone. We review methodological developments in electrophysiological source imaging over the past three decades and envision its future advancement into a powerful functional neuroimaging technology for basic and clinical neuroscience applications.
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- Bin He
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA;
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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- Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Purdue Institute of Integrative Neuroscience, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, USA
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Johnson NN, Carey J, Edelman BJ, Doud A, Grande A, Lakshminarayan K, He B. Combined rTMS and virtual reality brain-computer interface training for motor recovery after stroke. J Neural Eng 2018; 15:016009. [PMID: 28914232 PMCID: PMC5821060 DOI: 10.1088/1741-2552/aa8ce3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Combining repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) with brain-computer interface (BCI) training can address motor impairment after stroke by down-regulating exaggerated inhibition from the contralesional hemisphere and encouraging ipsilesional activation. The objective was to evaluate the efficacy of combined rTMS + BCI, compared to sham rTMS + BCI, on motor recovery after stroke in subjects with lasting motor paresis. APPROACH Three stroke subjects approximately one year post-stroke participated in three weeks of combined rTMS (real or sham) and BCI, followed by three weeks of BCI alone. Behavioral and electrophysiological differences were evaluated at baseline, after three weeks, and after six weeks of treatment. MAIN RESULTS Motor improvements were observed in both real rTMS + BCI and sham groups, but only the former showed significant alterations in inter-hemispheric inhibition in the desired direction and increased relative ipsilesional cortical activation from fMRI. In addition, significant improvements in BCI performance over time and adequate control of the virtual reality BCI paradigm were observed only in the former group. SIGNIFICANCE When combined, the results highlight the feasibility and efficacy of combined rTMS + BCI for motor recovery, demonstrated by increased ipsilesional motor activity and improvements in behavioral function for the real rTMS + BCI condition in particular. Our findings also demonstrate the utility of BCI training alone, as shown by behavioral improvements for the sham rTMS + BCI condition. This study is the first to evaluate combined rTMS and BCI training for motor rehabilitation and provides a foundation for continued work to evaluate the potential of both rTMS and virtual reality BCI training for motor recovery after stroke.
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- N N Johnson
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Physical Therapy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
- Institute for Engineering in Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Hosseini SAH, Sohrabpour A, He B. Electromagnetic source imaging using simultaneous scalp EEG and intracranial EEG: An emerging tool for interacting with pathological brain networks. Clin Neurophysiol 2018; 129:168-187. [PMID: 29190523 PMCID: PMC5743592 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2017.10.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2017] [Revised: 09/05/2017] [Accepted: 10/11/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The goal of this study is to investigate the performance, merits and limitations of source imaging using intracranial EEG (iEEG) recordings and to compare its accuracy to the results of EEG source imaging. Accuracy in this study, is measured both by determining the location and inter-nodal connectivity of underlying brain networks. METHODS Systematic computer simulation studies are conducted to evaluate iEEG-based source imaging vs. EEG-based source imaging, and source imaging using both EEG and iEEG. To test the source imaging models, networks of inter-connected nodes (in terms of activity) are simulated. The location of the network nodes is randomly selected within a realistic geometry head model and a connectivity link is created among these nodes based on a multi-variate auto-regressive (MVAR) model. Then the forward problem is solved to calculate the potentials at the electrodes and noise (white and correlated) is added to these simulated potentials to simulate realistic measurements. Subsequently, the inverse problem is solved and an algorithm based on principle component analysis is performed on the estimated source activities to determine the location of the simulated network nodes. The activity of these nodes (over time), is then extracted, and used to estimate the connectivity links among the mentioned nodes using Granger causality analysis. RESULTS Source imaging based on iEEG recordings may or may not improve the accuracy in localization, depending on the number and location of active nodes relative to iEEG electrodes and to other nodes within the network. However, our simulation results suggest that combining EEG and iEEG modalities (simultaneous scalp and intracranial recordings) can improve the imaging accuracy significantly. CONCLUSIONS While iEEG source imaging is useful in estimating the exact location of sources near the iEEG electrodes, combining EEG and iEEG recordings can achieve a more accurate imaging due to the high spatial coverage of the scalp electrodes and the added near field information provided by the iEEG electrodes. SIGNIFICANCE The present results suggest the feasibility of localizing brain electrical sources from iEEG recordings and improving EEG source localization using simultaneous EEG and iEEG recordings to cover the whole brain. The hybrid EEG and iEEG source imaging can assist the clinicians when unequivocal decisions about determining the epileptogenic zone cannot be reached using a single modality.
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA; Institute for Engineering in Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
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Petrichella S, Johnson N, He B. The influence of corticospinal activity on TMS-evoked activity and connectivity in healthy subjects: A TMS-EEG study. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0174879. [PMID: 28384197 PMCID: PMC5383066 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0174879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2016] [Accepted: 03/16/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Combined transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and electroencephalography (EEG) can be used to analyze cortical reactivity and connectivity. However, the effects of corticospinal and peripheral muscle activity on TMS-evoked potentials (TEPs) are not well understood. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the relationship between cortico-spinal activity, in the form of peripheral motor-evoked potentials (MEPs), and the TEPs from motor areas, along with the connectivity among activated brain areas. TMS was applied to left and right motor cortex (M1), separately, at motor threshold while multi-channel EEG responses were recorded in 17 healthy human subjects. Cortical excitability and source imaging analysis were performed for all trials at each stimulation location, as well as comparing trials resulting in MEPs to those without. Connectivity analysis was also performed comparing trials resulting in MEPs to those without. Cortical excitability results significantly differed between the MEP and no-MEP conditions for left M1 TMS at 60 ms (CP1, CP3, C1) and for right M1 TMS at 54 ms (CP6, C6). Connectivity analysis revealed higher outflow and inflow between M1 and somatosensory cortex bi-directionally for trials with MEPs than those without for both left M1 TMS (at 60, 100, 164 ms) and right M1 TMS (at 54, 100, and 164 ms). Both TEP amplitudes and connectivity measures related to motor and somatosensory areas ipsilateral to the stimulation were shown to correspond with peripheral MEP amplitudes. This suggests that cortico-spinal activation, along with the resulting somatosensory feedback, affects the cortical activity and dynamics within motor areas reflected in the TEPs. The findings suggest that TMS-EEG, along with adaptive connectivity estimators, can be used to evaluate the cortical dynamics associated with sensorimotor integration and proprioceptive manipulation along with the influence of peripheral muscle feedback.
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- Sara Petrichella
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
- Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, University Campus Bio-Medico, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
- Institute for Engineering in Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
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Sohrabpour A, Worrell G. Identifying epileptic source location and extent: an iterative sparse electromagnetic source imaging algorithm. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2017; 2016:109-112. [PMID: 28268292 DOI: 10.1109/embc.2016.7590652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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In this paper we have introduced a novel electromagnetic source imaging (ESI) technique and demonstrated its validity and excellent performance in imaging the location and extent of underlying epileptic sources in patients suffering from focal epilepsy. The proposed algorithm employs ideas from sparse signal processing literature and convex optimization theories to improve source imaging results obtained from scalp-recorded electroencephalogram (EEG). EEG source imaging results generally use subjective methods to determine the extent of the underlying brain activity. The proposed technique provides significant improvement in dealing with such shortcomings and eliminates the need for thresholding. The results of our computer simulations and clinical validation study demonstrate the excellent performance of the proposed algorithm and suggest it may become a useful tool for objectively determining the location and extent of focal epileptic activity in a noninvasive fashion.
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Al-Subari K, Al-Baddai S, Tomé AM, Volberg G, Ludwig B, Lang EW. Combined EMD-sLORETA Analysis of EEG Data Collected during a Contour Integration Task. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0167957. [PMID: 27936219 PMCID: PMC5148586 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0167957] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2016] [Accepted: 11/15/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Lately, Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD) techniques receive growing interest in biomedical data analysis. Event-Related Modes (ERMs) represent features extracted by an EEMD from electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings. We present a new approach for source localization of EEG data based on combining ERMs with inverse models. As the first step, 64 channel EEG recordings are pooled according to six brain areas and decomposed, by applying an EEMD, into their underlying ERMs. Then, based upon the problem at hand, the most closely related ERM, in terms of frequency and amplitude, is combined with inverse modeling techniques for source localization. More specifically, the standardized low resolution brain electromagnetic tomography (sLORETA) procedure is employed in this work. Accuracy and robustness of the results indicate that this approach deems highly promising in source localization techniques for EEG data.
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- Karema Al-Subari
- Department of Biology, Institute of Biophysics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
- Department of Linguistics, Literature and Culture, Institute of Information Science, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Institute of Biophysics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
- Department of Linguistics, Literature and Culture, Institute of Information Science, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Telecommunication and Informatics, Institut of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
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- Department of Psychology, Pedagogics and Sport, Institute of Experimental Psychology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Linguistics, Literature and Culture, Institute of Information Science, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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- Department of Biology, Institute of Biophysics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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Sohrabpour A, Ye S, Worrell GA, Zhang W, He B. Noninvasive Electromagnetic Source Imaging and Granger Causality Analysis: An Electrophysiological Connectome (eConnectome) Approach. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2016; 63:2474-2487. [PMID: 27740473 PMCID: PMC5152676 DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2016.2616474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Combined source-imaging techniques and directional connectivity analysis can provide useful information about the underlying brain networks in a noninvasive fashion. Source-imaging techniques have been used successfully to either determine the source of activity or to extract source time-courses for Granger causality analysis, previously. In this work, we utilize source-imaging algorithms to both find the network nodes [regions of interest (ROI)] and then extract the activation time series for further Granger causality analysis. The aim of this work is to find network nodes objectively from noninvasive electromagnetic signals, extract activation time-courses, and apply Granger analysis on the extracted series to study brain networks under realistic conditions. METHODS Source-imaging methods are used to identify network nodes and extract time-courses and then Granger causality analysis is applied to delineate the directional functional connectivity of underlying brain networks. Computer simulations studies where the underlying network (nodes and connectivity pattern) is known were performed; additionally, this approach has been evaluated in partial epilepsy patients to study epilepsy networks from interictal and ictal signals recorded by EEG and/or Magnetoencephalography (MEG). RESULTS Localization errors of network nodes are less than 5 mm and normalized connectivity errors of ∼20% in estimating underlying brain networks in simulation studies. Additionally, two focal epilepsy patients were studied and the identified nodes driving the epileptic network were concordant with clinical findings from intracranial recordings or surgical resection. CONCLUSION Our study indicates that combined source-imaging algorithms with Granger causality analysis can identify underlying networks precisely (both in terms of network nodes location and internodal connectivity). SIGNIFICANCE The combined source imaging and Granger analysis technique is an effective tool for studying normal or pathological brain conditions.
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- Abbas Sohrabpour
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
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- Minnesota Epilepsy Group, United Hospital, MN 55102 USA and also with the Department of Neurology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 55455 USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, and the Institute for Engineering in Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
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Baxter BS, Edelman BJ, Nesbitt N, He B. Sensorimotor Rhythm BCI with Simultaneous High Definition-Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Alters Task Performance. Brain Stimul 2016; 9:834-841. [PMID: 27522166 PMCID: PMC5143161 DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2016.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2016] [Revised: 07/10/2016] [Accepted: 07/12/2016] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has been used to alter the excitability of neurons within the cerebral cortex. Improvements in motor learning have been found in multiple studies when tDCS was applied to the motor cortex before or during task learning. The motor cortex is also active during the performance of motor imagination, a cognitive task during which a person imagines, but does not execute, a movement. Motor imagery can be used with noninvasive brain computer interfaces (BCIs) to control virtual objects in up to three dimensions, but to master control of such devices requires long training times. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of high-definition tDCS on the performance and underlying electrophysiology of motor imagery based BCI. METHODS We utilize high-definition tDCS to investigate the effect of stimulation on motor imagery-based BCI performance across and within sessions over multiple training days. RESULTS We report a decreased time-to-hit with anodal stimulation both within and across sessions. We also found differing electrophysiological changes of the stimulated sensorimotor cortex during online BCI task performance for left vs. right trials. Cathodal stimulation led to a decrease in alpha and beta band power during task performance compared to sham stimulation for right hand imagination trials. CONCLUSION These results suggest that unilateral tDCS over the sensorimotor motor cortex differentially affects cortical areas based on task specific neural activation.
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- Bryan S Baxter
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA; Institute for Engineering in Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
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Yu K, Sohrabpour A, He B. Electrophysiological Source Imaging of Brain Networks Perturbed by Low-Intensity Transcranial Focused Ultrasound. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2016; 63:1787-1794. [PMID: 27448335 PMCID: PMC5247426 DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2016.2591924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) has been introduced as a noninvasive neuromodulation technique with good spatial selectivity. We report an experimental investigation to detect noninvasive electrophysiological response induced by low-intensity tFUS in an in vivo animal model and perform electrophysiological source imaging (ESI) of tFUS-induced brain activity from noninvasive scalp EEG recordings. METHODS A single-element ultrasound transducer was used to generate low-intensity tFUS ( ) and induce brain activation at multiple selected sites in an in vivo rat model. Up to 16 scalp electrodes were used to record tFUS-induced EEG. Event-related potentials were analyzed in time, frequency, and spatial domains. Current source distributions were estimated by ESI to reconstruct spatiotemporal distributions of brain activation induced by tFUS. RESULTS Neuronal activation was observed following low-intensity tFUS, as correlated to tFUS intensity and sonication duration. ESI revealed initial focal activation in cortical area corresponding to tFUS stimulation site and the activation propagating to surrounding areas over time. CONCLUSION The present results demonstrate the feasibility of noninvasively recording brain electrophysiological response in vivo following low-intensity tFUS stimulation, and the feasibility of imaging spatiotemporal distributions of brain activation as induced by tFUS in vivo. SIGNIFICANCE The present approach may lead to a new means of imaging brain activity using tFUS perturbation and a closed-loop ESI-guided tFUS neuromodulation modality.
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Tong S. Virtual Reality: The New Era of Rehabilitation Engineering [From the Regional Editor]. IEEE Pulse 2016; 7:5. [DOI: 10.1109/mpul.2016.2546658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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