Biomagnetic neurosensors

✍ Scribed by Garry A Rechnitz; Christopher W Babb

• Book ID: 104361958
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 570 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0958-1669
• DOI: 10.1016/s0958-1669(96)80095-4

✦ Synopsis

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SQUID superconducting quantum interference device (e.g. electrophysiological) approaches. Recently, biomagnetic neurosensors have emerged as viable analytical tools for studying neuromodulatory activity; our group [1",2",3 °'] has been the chief proponents of biomagnetic neurosensor research, publishing the only works dealing directly with the subject matter over the past two years. Even so, a variety of research preceded and facilitated the development of these techniques. Some of the focus of this review is on such earlier work in order to show how biomagnetic neurosensors have evolved. A discussion of neural biosensors employing electrophysiological techniques, developed by our group and by others, as well as the construction and testing of a biomagnetic probe by researchers at Vanderbih University, provides much of the background needed to understand the experimental techniques and data handling related to biomagnetic neurosensors. Finally, possible future directions for this technique as an analytical tool are explored.