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Recording brain activities in unshielded Earth's field with optically pumped atomic magnetometers.


ABSTRACT: Understanding the relationship between brain activity and specific mental function is important for medical diagnosis of brain symptoms, such as epilepsy. Magnetoencephalography (MEG), which uses an array of high-sensitivity magnetometers to record magnetic field signals generated from neural currents occurring naturally in the brain, is a noninvasive method for locating the brain activities. The MEG is normally performed in a magnetically shielded room. Here, we introduce an unshielded MEG system based on optically pumped atomic magnetometers. We build an atomic magnetic gradiometer, together with feedback methods, to reduce the environment magnetic field noise. We successfully observe the alpha rhythm signals related to closed eyes and clear auditory evoked field signals in unshielded Earth's field. Combined with improvements in the miniaturization of the atomic magnetometer, our method is promising to realize a practical wearable and movable unshielded MEG system and bring new insights into medical diagnosis of brain symptoms.

SUBMITTER: Zhang R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7292643 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Recording brain activities in unshielded Earth's field with optically pumped atomic magnetometers.

Zhang Rui R   Xiao Wei W   Ding Yudong Y   Feng Yulong Y   Peng Xiang X   Shen Liang L   Sun Chenxi C   Wu Teng T   Wu Yulong Y   Yang Yucheng Y   Zheng Zhaoyu Z   Zhang Xiangzhi X   Chen Jingbiao J   Guo Hong H  

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Understanding the relationship between brain activity and specific mental function is important for medical diagnosis of brain symptoms, such as epilepsy. Magnetoencephalography (MEG), which uses an array of high-sensitivity magnetometers to record magnetic field signals generated from neural currents occurring naturally in the brain, is a noninvasive method for locating the brain activities. The MEG is normally performed in a magnetically shielded room. Here, we introduce an unshielded MEG syst  ...[more]

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