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Retinotopic mapping of the primary visual cortex - a challenge for MEG imaging of the human cortex

Perry, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0468-0421, Adjamian, Peyman, Thai, Ngoc J., Holliday, Ian E., Hillebrand, Arjan and Barnes, Gareth R. 2011. Retinotopic mapping of the primary visual cortex - a challenge for MEG imaging of the human cortex. European Journal of Neuroscience 34 (4) , pp. 652-661. 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07777.x

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Abstract

Magnetoencephalography (MEG) can be used to reconstruct neuronal activity with high spatial and temporal resolution. However, this reconstruction problem is ill-posed, and requires the use of prior constraints in order to produce a unique solution. At present there are a multitude of inversion algorithms, each employing different assumptions, but one major problem when comparing the accuracy of these different approaches is that often the true underlying electrical state of the brain is unknown. In this study, we explore one paradigm, retinotopic mapping in the primary visual cortex (V1), for which the ground truth is known to a reasonable degree of accuracy, enabling the comparison of MEG source reconstructions with the true electrical state of the brain. Specifically, we attempted to localize, using a beamforming method, the induced responses in the visual cortex generated by a high contrast, retinotopically varying stimulus. Although well described in primate studies, it has been an open question whether the induced gamma power in humans due to high contrast gratings derives from V1 rather than the prestriate cortex (V2). We show that the beamformer source estimate in the gamma and theta bands does vary in a manner consistent with the known retinotopy of V1. However, these peak locations, although retinotopically organized, did not accurately localize to the cortical surface. We considered possible causes for this discrepancy and suggest that improved MEG/magnetic resonance imaging co-registration and the use of more accurate source models that take into account the spatial extent and shape of the active cortex may, in future, improve the accuracy of the source reconstructions.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC)
Psychology
Subjects: R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Uncontrolled Keywords: gamma oscillations; inverse; localization; magnetoencephalography; primary visual cortex
Publisher: Wiley
ISSN: 0953-816X
Last Modified: 20 Oct 2022 07:52
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/26778

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