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Abstract
Objective: To demonstrate noninvasive localization of cognitive cortical areas involved in language processing with magnetoencephalography (MEG) interpreted by multiresolution FOCUSS (MR-FOCUSS), a current density imaging technique.
Method: MEG data were collected during verb-generation and picture-naming tasks from 18 right-handed control subjects and 24 right-handed patients with epilepsy.
Results: The averaged epic data from the verb-generation task, analyzed by MR-FOCUSS, showed initial activation in the left supramarginal gyrus, superior temporal gyrus, and angular gyrus at 239 ± 31 ms in all subjects, consistent with other language mapping studies. Average amplitude of underlying cortical sources was ∼452 pAm. The averaged epic data from the picture-naming task, analyzed by MR-FOCUSS, showed activation in the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) area starting at 436 ± 40 ms in all subjects. Average amplitudes of underlying cortical sources were ∼380 pAm.
Conclusion: The time course of neuronal language processing can be imaged noninvasively with millisecond resolution by magnetoencephalography using the multiresolution FOCUSS technique.
- Received May 29, 2003.
- Accepted February 18, 2004.
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