Jane and John Justin Neuroscience Center, Cook Children's Health Care System, 1500 Cooper Street, Fort Worth, TX 76104, USA; Department of Pediatrics, TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine, Fort Worth, TX, USA; Laboratory of Children's Brain Dynamics, Division of Newborn Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, CSH115, Department of Radiology, 34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Neuroimaging Clin N Am. 2020 May;30(2):239-248. doi: 10.1016/j.nic.2020.02.002. Epub 2020 Apr 1.
Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a noninvasive neuroimaging technique that measures the electromagnetic fields generated by the human brain. This article highlights the benefits that pediatric MEG has to offer to clinical practice and pediatric research, particularly for infants and young children; reviews the existing literature on adult MEG systems for pediatric use; briefly describes the few pediatric MEG systems currently extant; and draws attention to future directions of research, with focus on the clinical use of MEG for patients with drug-resistant epilepsy.
脑磁图描记术（MEG）是一种非侵入性神经影像学技术，用于测量人脑产生的电磁场。本文重点介绍了儿科 MEG 为临床实践和儿科研究带来的益处，特别是对婴儿和幼儿而言；回顾了现有的用于儿科的成人 MEG 系统文献；简要描述了目前存在的少数儿科 MEG 系统；并提请注意未来的研究方向，重点是 MEG 在耐药性癫痫患者中的临床应用。
