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AIST TODAYNo.2 2001


MEG Technology and Its Application for Medical Welfere

Mitsuo TONOIKE
Life Electronics Laboratory
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Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is one of the most important non-invasive measurements of human brain activity and a valuable technology to understand human sense, cognition, and various actions in daily life. Using the advantage of MEG; the excellent time resolution and good signal source localization, we found the olfactory nervous center in the orbito-frontal area and a fine control mechanism on attention and emotion. Ultrasonic hearing has been recently revealed by bone conduction method with an ultrasound vibrator using MEG, so that the development of a ultrasonic hearing aid is expected for hearing deaf people.

Photo Whole-head type neuromagnetometer using 122-channel SQUID sensors(left) and olfactory MEG experiment(right)

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AIST Today Vol. 1, No. 2 (2001) 24-29


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