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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2017
Duke University, Durham, NC (US);
Trong-Kha Truong, Durham, NC (US);
Allen W. Song, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Duke University, Durham, NC (US);
Abstract
In vivo methods of non-invasively imaging neuro-electro-magnetic oscillations (NEMO) are carried out by electronically transmitting a pulse sequence to a subject. The pulse sequence has a first excitation pulse, typically applied along an x-axis, followed by a spin-lock pulse applied along a different axis, typically a y-axis, and having a defined frequency, followed by a second RF excitation pulse. Then MR image signal of neuroelectric activity associated with evoked and/or spontaneous neuroelectric oscillations is obtained after the second RF excitation pulse and a neuroactivity (i.e., brain activation) map based on the obtained MR image signal is generated, the neuroactivity map having high temporal and spatial accuracy of the neuroelectric activity.