Wearable brain and spinal cord imaging for real-world neuroscience

用于现实神经科学的可穿戴大脑和脊髓成像

• 批准号: MR/X012409/1
• 负责人: Gareth Barnes
• 金额: $ 27.64万
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FX012409%2F1
• 关键词: Wearable; brain; spinal; cord; imaging

The brain and spinal cord rely heavily on each other, meaning that damage to one affects the other, but it has been very difficult to study these effects in humans. Until now these two systems have been studied largely in isolation, or have required people to lie perfectly still in a scanning tunnel. We recently developed a wearable scanner, consisting of a helmet and backpack that can be worn with some degree of movement possible.While this is much more comfortable for the person being scanned, the main hindrance to movement is the cabling, which is dense and trails behind the person. The purpose of this proposal is to make this wearable system effectively wireless, allowing complete freedom of movement. This new system will be especially important for the many debilitating conditions (such as spinal cord injury, stroke, dementia) that could be better diagnosed and treated if we could directly image how the brain and spinal cord interact.

大脑和脊髓严重依赖于彼此，这意味着对一个的损害会影响另一个，但在人类中研究这些影响非常困难。到目前为止，这两个系统在很大程度上是孤立地研究的，或者需要人们在扫描隧道中完全静止。我们最近开发了一种可穿戴扫描仪，由头盔和背包组成，可以在一定程度上移动。虽然这对被扫描者来说要舒适得多，但移动的主要障碍是电缆，电缆密集且落后于人。该提案的目的是使该可穿戴系统有效地无线化，从而实现完全的移动自由。这个新系统对于许多使人衰弱的疾病（如脊髓损伤、中风、痴呆）尤其重要，如果我们能够直接成像大脑和脊髓如何相互作用，这些疾病就可以得到更好的诊断和治疗。