Abstract
We present a concept for integrating focused ultrasound (FUS) with electrophysiological neuroimaging, in order to achieve high spatiotemporal resolution brain imaging. This approach, which we are tentatively calling acousto-electrophysiological neuroimaging, leverages on the spatial focality and noninvasiveness of FUS and may potentially lead to a noninvasive human brain imaging modality with high resolution in both space and time domains. By the use of modulated FUS, spatial selectivity can be accomplished for high-resolution electrophysiological neuroimaging. Frequency shifting in resulting magnetic signals (using modulated FUS) may potentially open the door for a room temperature magnetoencephalography device.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 7676270 |
| Pages (from-to) | 2654-2656 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 2016 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant CBET-1450956, by the National Institutes of Health under Grant NS096761, Grant EB021027, Grant AT009263, Grant EY023101, and Grant HL117664.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
Keywords
- Electroencephalography (EEG)
- Ultrasound
- electrophysiological neuroimaging
- magnetoencephalography (MEG)
- source imaging
- source localization