title: MEG as a Medical Diagnostic Tool in the Greek Population.
abstract: Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is the recording of the magnetic field produced by the flowing of ions in the brain. This article reports our experience in the application of MEG in patients and healthy volunteers in the Greek population. We provide a brief description of our research work. The MEG data were recorded in a magnetically shielded room with a whole-head 122 channel or an one-channel biomagnetometer. Our results lead us to believe that the MEG is an important research field which is evolving quickly with a number of interesting findings with respect to normal and abnormal functions of the human brain. It could provide clinical practice with an easy to perform non invasive method, which could be adjunct to conventional methods for the evaluation of brain disorders.
authors.affiliation: Lab of Medical Physics, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece.
authors.forename: Photios
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Anninos
authors.affiliation: Lab of Medical Physics, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece.
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Adamopoulos
authors.affiliation: Lab of Medical Physics, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece. akotini@med.duth.gr.
authors.forename: Athanasia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kotini
mesh_terms: D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006115:Greece; D006801:Humans; D015225:Magnetoencephalography / Q000295:instrumentation*
keywords: Alzheimer; Epilepsy; Febrile seizures; MEG; Multiple sclerosis; Parkinson; SQUID