title: Publication criteria for evoked magnetic fields of the human brain: a proposal.
abstract: Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a record of the magnetic fields produced by the electrical activities of the brain using MEG systems. There are three types of sensors for MEG systems: magnetometer and two types of gradiometer. Among them, two types of gradiometer, axial and planar, have been used worldwide. Unfortunately, the waveforms recorded by the two types of gradiometer are often different from each other. This poses a serious problem in comparing and evaluating the data from the two gradiometers. We consider that the MEG study should be published in a way that allows other workers using different types of gradiometer to evaluate and replicate the results of MEG studies. There have been, however, no publication criteria for reports of studies on stimulus-evoked or event-related magnetic fields in human subjects. In this article, we propose publication criteria for evoked or event-related magnetic fields of the human brain: original waveforms of selected channels covering a region of interest, a root mean-squared (RMS) waveform and a contour map at an appropriate time.
authors: Aomori University of Health and Welfare, Hamadate, Aomori, Japan. isamu@auhw.ac.jp
authors: Isamu
authors: I
authors: Ozaki
authors: Hideaki
authors: H
authors: Shiraishi
authors: Kyousuke
authors: K
authors: Kamada
authors: Shigeki
authors: S
authors: Kameyama
authors: Naohiro
authors: N
authors: Tsuyuguchi
authors: Masato
authors: M
authors: Yumoto
authors: Yutaka
authors: Y
authors: Watanabe
authors: Masayuki
authors: M
authors: Hirata
authors: Ryouhei
authors: R
authors: Ishii
authors: Yoshinobu
authors: Y
authors: Iguchi
authors: Tomoaki
authors: T
authors: Kimura
authors: Ryosuke
authors: R
authors: Takino
authors: Isao
authors: I
authors: Hashimoto
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D015225:Magnetoencephalography / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D011642:Publications / Q000592:standards*