ReviewClinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology2018
IFCN-endorsed practical guidelines for clinical magnetoencephalography (MEG).
Review in Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 73 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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73 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 165 citations in OpenAlex.
- Tracking electrophysiological signatures of Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review of multimodal studies.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Pooled it
- Characterizing hippocampal dynamics with MEG: A systematic review and evidence-based guidelines.Human brain mapping · 2019Pooled it
- Subclinical epileptiform activity in the Alzheimer continuum: association with disease, cognition and detection method.Alzheimer's research & therapy · 2024Trial
- SERF-MEG as a Functional Biomarker of Optic Nerve Injury: Agreement and Correlation with Visual Evoked Potentials.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Magnetoencephalography in human neuroscience research: planning, piloting, implementation and quality assurance.Nature protocols · 2026Review
- Emerging paradigms in connectome-guided neurosurgery for central nervous system tumors: a narrative review of structural and functional connectomics.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2026Review
- Sleep magnetoencephalography enhances detection and source imaging of seizures and fast oscillations in focal cortical dysplasia.Epilepsia · 2026Article
- Revolutionizing Pediatric Neurophysiology With Magnetoencephalography.Psychophysiology · 2026Review
- 3D printed pediatric head phantom for assessing deep epileptic sources localization.Computers in biology and medicine · 2026Article
- Educational needs and training conditions of young clinical neurophysiologists: survey of IFCN-young neurophysiologists network.Clinical neurophysiology practice · 2026Review
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- Magnetoencephalography study of the Xingnao Kaiqiao acupuncture during acupuncture and language task states in healthy volunteers: a single-blind, randomized, sham-controlled trial protocol.Frontiers in neurology · 2026Article
- Functional brain network organization during the 40-Hz auditory steady-state response in children with and without autism spectrum disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Neuroimaging of Ictal MEG: An Evaluation of Magnetic Source Imaging Techniques.Brain topography · 2025Article
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- Simultaneously Acquired Magnetoencephalography and Diffuse Optical Tomography Data Reveals Correlated Somatosensory Activity.Human brain mapping · 2025Article
- Superconducting Quantum Magnetometers for Brain Investigations.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Electrophysiological approaches to informing therapeutic interventions with deep brain stimulation.NPJ Parkinson's disease · 2025Review
- Amyloid-β deposition predicts oscillatory slowing of magnetoencephalography signals and a reduction of functional connectivity over time in cognitively unimpaired adults.Brain communications · 2025Article
- Source Causal Connectivity Noninvasively Predicting Surgical Outcomes of Drug-Refractory Epilepsy.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2025Article
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Abstract
Magnetoencephalography (MEG) records weak magnetic fields outside the human head and thereby provides millisecond-accurate information about neuronal currents supporting human brain function. MEG and electroencephalography (EEG) are closely related complementary methods and should be interpreted together whenever possible. This manuscript covers the basic physical and physiological principles of MEG and discusses the main aspects of state-of-the-art MEG data analysis. We provide guidelines for best practices of patient preparation, stimulus presentation, MEG data collection and analysis, as well as for MEG interpretation in routine clinical examinations. In 2017, about 200 whole-scalp MEG devices were in operation worldwide, many of them located in clinical environments. Yet, the established clinical indications for MEG examinations remain few, mainly restricted to the diagnostics of epilepsy and to preoperative functional evaluation of neurosurgical patients. We are confident that the extensive ongoing basic MEG research indicates potential for the evaluation of neurological and psychiatric syndromes, developmental disorders, and the integrity of cortical brain networks after stroke. Basic and clinical research is, thus, paving way for new clinical applications to be identified by an increasing number of practitioners of MEG.
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