Current clinical magnetoencephalography practice across Europe:are we closer to use MEG as an established clinical tool?

Abstract

Purpose: This comprehensive survey aims at characterizing the current clinical use of magnetoencephalography (MEG) across European MEG centres. Methods: Forty-four MEG centres across Europe were contacted in May 2015 via personalized e-mail to contribute to survey. The web-based survey was available on-line for 1 month and the MEG centres that did not respond were further contacted to maximize participation. Results: Among the 57% of responders, 12 centres from 10 different countries reported to use MEG for clinical applications. A total of 524 MEG investigations were performed in 2014 for the pre-surgical evaluation of epilepsy, while in the same period 244 MEG investigations were performed for pre-surgical functional brain mapping. Seven MEG centres located in different European countries performed ≥50 MEG investigations for epilepsy mapping in 2014, both in children and adults. In those centres, time from patient preparation to MEG data reporting tends to be lower than those investigating a lower annual number of patients. Conclusion: This survey demonstrates that there is in Europe an increasing and widespread expertise in the field of clinical MEG. These findings should serve as a basis to harmonize clinical MEG procedures and promote the clinical added value of MEG across Europe. MEG should now be considered in Europe as a mature clinical neurophysiological technique that should be used routinely in two specific clinical indications, i.e, the pre-surgical evaluation of refractory focal epilepsy and functional brain mapping.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seizure.2017.06.002
Divisions: College of Health & Life Sciences > School of Psychology
College of Health & Life Sciences
College of Health & Life Sciences > Clinical and Systems Neuroscience
College of Health & Life Sciences > Aston Institute of Health & Neurodevelopment (AIHN)
Additional Information: © 2017, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Uncontrolled Keywords: magnetoencephalography,Europe,survey,epilepsy,pre-surgical evaluation,functional mapping,Neurology,Clinical Neurology
Publication ISSN: 1532-2688
Last Modified: 04 Mar 2024 08:21
Date Deposited: 14 Jun 2017 13:15
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2017-08
Published Online Date: 2017-06-08
Accepted Date: 2017-06-04
Submitted Date: 2017-04-21
Authors: de Tiège, Xavier
Lundqvist, Daniel
Beniczky, Sándor
Seri, Stefano (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-9247-8102)
Paetau, Ritva

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