Stanford unveils West Coast's first OPM-MEG brain scanner with millisecond, millimeter precision
coryshain · x · 2026-10-01
Stanford's Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute unveiled OPM-MEG (magnetoencephalography with optically pumped magnetometers), housed in a 13,000-pound magnetically shielded room—the first MEG on campus and first OPM-MEG on the West Coast.
Highlights:
- Quantum sensors capture brain magnetic fields with millisecond and millimeter precision
- Lightweight wearable sensors let participants move and interact naturally, unlike traditional MEG
- Located in the Koret Human Neurosciences Community Laboratory, open to researchers across Stanford
- Faculty scholar Laura Gwilliams says it enables studying the brain in more natural settings than nearly any other technology
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