{"id":58,"date":"2025-05-14T12:57:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T11:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/omegas\/?page_id=58"},"modified":"2026-02-13T14:22:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T14:22:38","slug":"about-opm-meg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/omegas\/about-opm-meg\/","title":{"rendered":"About OPM-MEG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Magnetoencephalography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Measuring healthy and pathological human brain activity with unprecedented precision is a rapidly growing field with myriad applications relating to both cognitive and clinical neuroscience and huge funding potential. In human neuroimaging, magnetoencephalography (MEG) is the cutting-edge technology to achieve this. MEG measures brain activity with millisecond timing and excels at showing from where in the brain different activities originate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"415\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/omegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2025\/06\/NIMH_MEG-e1749650786165.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-93\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/omegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2025\/06\/NIMH_MEG-e1749650786165.jpg 630w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/omegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2025\/06\/NIMH_MEG-e1749650786165-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Unknown NIMH author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Optically Pumped Magnetometers- Magnetoencephalography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Newly developed optically pumped magnetometer (OPM-) MEG devices use high-sensitivity quantum sensors that work at room temperature and significantly cut the procurement, maintenance and research costs compared with conventional devices (e.g., Scotland\u2019s only MEG at the University of Glasgow), which require super-cooling with liquid Helium &#8211; a scarce and expensive resource. OPM-MEG can also allow movement during recordings and as sensors are closer to the scalp higher signal-to-noise can be achieved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"957\" height=\"324\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/omegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2025\/06\/OPMMEG-e1749653770933.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/omegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2025\/06\/OPMMEG-e1749653770933.png 957w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/omegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2025\/06\/OPMMEG-e1749653770933-300x102.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/omegas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2025\/06\/OPMMEG-e1749653770933-768x260.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 957px) 100vw, 957px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Matthew J. Brookes, James Leggett, Molly Rea, Ryan M. Hill, Niall Holmes, Elena Boto, Richard Bowtell, Magnetoencephalography with optically pumped magnetometers (OPM-MEG): the next generation of functional neuroimaging, Trends in Neurosciences, Volume 45, Issue 8, 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our Research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Scotland\u2019s first OPM-MEG system will take Scottish neuroscience to the cutting edge of quantum sensing of human neurophysiology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magnetoencephalography Measuring healthy and pathological human brain activity with unprecedented precision is a rapidly growing field with myriad applications relating to both cognitive and clinical neuroscience and huge funding potential. In human neuroimaging, magnetoencephalography (MEG) is the cutting-edge technology to achieve this. MEG measures brain activity with millisecond timing and excels at showing from where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":857,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-58","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/omegas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/omegas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/omegas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/omegas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/857"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/omegas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/omegas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/omegas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/omegas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}