The brain scanner for development of children

2019: Announcement

At the beginning of November, 2019 it became known of the beginning of use of the scanner of a brain in the form of a bicycle helmet to study development of a brain in small children.

Researchers from the Center of visualization of sir Peter Mansfield in the University of Nottingham together with researchers from the University of Oxford and the London university college used technology of a magnetoencephalography (MEG) for measurement of activity of a brain at children who are engaged in routine daily cases at this time.

It became known of the beginning of use of the scanner of a brain in the form of a bicycle helmet to study development of a brain in small children

Researchers believe that the brain scanner in the form of a helmet will provide a new method of assessment of function of a brain throughout all life and will allow to study neurologic and mental diseases at children. In the scanner researchers used easy "quantum" sensors which allow to adapt a helmet to any size of the head.

Also especially for this device the electromagnetic coils providing control over background electromagnetic fields were developed. Thanks to them investigated can freely move in space, and researchers can obtain data on work of a brain in the habitat.

The head of a research from the University of Nottingham Matthew Brookes considers tested by the important step which is bringing closer use of MEG in real clinical conditions. Researchers set for themselves the task to extend knowledge of MEG in the scientific environment that other scientists also estimated advantages of this method of a research - high sensitivity and an opportunity to take readings at any time in any place, in particular at the child in the habitat.

Besides, researchers want to improve construction and a method of production of a system to turn MEG from a laboratory method of a research into commercial.^[1]

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