UCSD Radiologists Excited About New MEG Technology
Magnetoencephalography is one of the latest imaging tools available to radiologists and offers a noninvasive technique for imaging the brain, and officials with the University of California at San Diego are exited about their plans to use the new tool.
"At the Department of Radiology we are excited by this new relationship with Elekta and the possibility to bring magnetoencephalography to UCSD," said ACR Fellow William G. Bradly, Jr, MD, PhD, chair of the UCSD Department of Radiology and a member of the ACR Board of Chancellors, in a February 16 press release. Furthermore, Bradley continued, the new technology coupled with UCSD's existing facilities "will form the basis for a neuroscience program that will be hard to rival."
According to the press release, MEG provides direct measurement of neuronal activation with millisecond temporal resolution, in contrast to functional MRI, PET, or SPECT. Moreover, it differs from MRI and CAT technology which look at anatomic structures.
"MEG is a powerful tool for studying normal brain function and brain disorders," added ACR member Roland R. Lee, MD, professor of radiology in residence at UCSD. "[UCSD] is an ideal place for MEG, since [it] already has several top neuroscience programs. Furthermore, the strong MEG program of our radiology department has recently recruited MEG experts covering many related fields including radiology, neurophysiology, cognitive neuroscience, and physics."
Click here to read the press release on UCSD's new MEG capabilities.