Development of lightweight shields for OPM-MEG scanners

Funder	Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Recipient Organization	University of Nottingham
Country	United Kingdom
Start Date	Sep 30, 2024
End Date	Sep 29, 2028
Duration	1,460 days
Number of Grantees	2
Roles	Student; Supervisor
Data Source	UKRI Gateway to Research
Grant ID	`2927676`

Grant Description

Magnetically shielded rooms (MSRs) for OPM-MEG are currently large (>10 tonnes) expensive (c.£750k) and difficult to site (>4 m high), this prohibits the deployability of OPM-MEG. The school has recently received equipment funding from EPSRC (c.£98k) to construct a lightweight (