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ArticleIEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering2025

Wearable Magnetoencephalography in a Lightly Shielded Environment.

Niall Holmes, James Leggett, Ryan M Hill, Lukas Rier, Elena Boto, Holly Schofield, Tyler Hayward, Eliot Dawson, David Woolger, Vishal Shah and 3 more

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Article in IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. SPM-30 years and beyond.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2025
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  4. Determining sensor geometry and gain in a wearable MEG system.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025
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13 authors.

Niall Holmes
James Leggett
Ryan M Hill
Lukas Rier
Elena Boto
Holly Schofield
Tyler Hayward
Eliot Dawson
David Woolger
Vishal Shah
Samu Taulu
Matthew J Brookes
Richard Bowtell

Funding

Spatial-frequency decompositions for enhancement of source reconstruction resolution in MEGR21EB033577 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI TAULU, SAMU · 2022 to 2024
$622k
NIBIB NIH HHS R21 EB033577
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Wearable magnetoencephalography based on optically pumped magnetometers (OPM-MEG) offers non-invasive and high-fidelity measurement of human brain electrophysiology. The flexibility of OPM-MEG also means it can be deployed in participants of all ages and permits scanning during movement. However, the magnetic fields generated by neuronal currents - which form the basis of the OPM-MEG signal - are much smaller than environmental fields, and this means measurements are highly sensitive to interference. Further, OPMs have a low dynamic range, and should be operated in near-zero background field. Scanners must therefore be housed in specialised magnetically shielded rooms (MSRs), formed from multiple layers of shielding material. The MSR is a critical component, and current OPM-optimised shields are large (>3 m in height), heavy (>10,000 kg) and expensive (with up to 5 layers of material). This restricts the uptake of OPM-MEG technology. Here, we show that the application of the Maxwell filtering techniques signal space separation (SSS) and its spatiotemporal extension (tSSS) to OPM-MEG data can isolate small signals of interest measured in the presence of large interference. We compare phantom recordings and MEG data from a participant performing a motor task in a state-of-the-art 5-layer MSR, to similar data collected in a lightly shielded room: application of tSSS to data recorded in the lightly shielded room allowed accurate localisation of a dipole source in the phantom and neuronal sources in the brain. Our results point to future deployment of OPM-MEG in lighter, cheaper and easier-to-site MSRs which could catalyse widespread adoption of the technology.

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MagnetoencephalographySignal Processing, Computer-AssistedWearable Electronic DevicesAdultBrainEquipment DesignHumans

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PMID39302788
PMCPMC11933739

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