STUDIES OF HUMAN BRAIN FUNCTIONS I USING MULTI-CHANNEL LARGE MEG DEVICE AND MICRO-SQUID

这是我系在200-2002年间的活动情况报告。在此期间，我们主要通过脑磁图(MEG)和脑电(EEG)来研究大脑功能，但开始与脑研究部合作使用3-T功能磁共振成像(FMRI)(会长Norihiro Sadato教授)。在此期间，最大的新闻之一是我们在2002年8月安装了一台由Neuromag制造的新的全头MEG机器VectorView。经过一些小故障后，这台新机器现在运转良好。我们希望利用这一新工具发现和报告新的重要发现。作为日本脑磁图研究的先驱，我们将尽最大努力在脑磁图研究方面取得进展，尽管我们总是面临和必须解决其他科学领域研究人员的许多误解。当然，与功能磁共振成像和正电子发射计算机断层扫描等其他领域的研究人员合作研究对于解决人类大脑的复杂但令人着迷的问题是必要的。

This is the report of activities in our department between 200 and 2002.. During this period, we mainly investigated brain functions by magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electroencephalography (EEG), but started to use 3-T functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in cooperation with the Department of Cerebral Research (Chairperson Prof. Norihiro Sadato).One of the biggest news items during this period was that we installed a new whole-head MEG machine, VectorView, made by Neuromag in Augus, 2002. After some minor troubles, the new machine is now working well. We hope to discover and report new and important findings using this new tool.As pioneers of MEG study in Japan, we will do our best to make progress in MEG investigation, though we always face and have to solve many misunderstandings by researchers in other scientific fields. Cooperative studies with researchers in other fields such as functional MRI and PET are, of course, necessary to resolve the complicated but fascinating problems of the human brain.