Neuromagnetism and Its Clinical Applications

This contribution is devoted to the presentation of the latest results in the field of neuromagnetism, namely the application of SQUIDS to the patho-physiological study of the human brain. For completeness sake, these results are preceded by an account, in the form of a tutorial, of the theoretical and experimental aspects of neuromagnetism: the methods of field calculation and source estimation, and an overview of the state-of-the-art instrumentation. A recent review of neuromagnetism, that covers theoretical, experimental and clinical fields, can be found in [1]. Complete and more advanced treatments of the volume conductor effect, of distributed source modelling, and of integration of biomagnetism with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and other techniques for medical imaging are published elsewhere in this volume.

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