Moving functional brain imaging into the real world: A wearable, cryogen-free, magnetoencephalography (MEG) system (360G-Wellcome-203257_Z_16_A)

Children with epilepsy, their parents, play specialists, researchers and clinicians will have co-produced, and together feel ownership of, the design and implementation of new child-friendly wearable scanners, interactive games and tasks, and an engaging room interior. Working alongside an artist and designer, we will have successfully run several diverse focus groups, workshops and interactive sessions for different cohorts of children and their families/carers. We will have used the feedback from these sessions to design and build prototype room interiors, interactive tasks and scanner helmets to be used in a clinical setting. We will have demonstrated that, through engagement, this project has increased our ability to effectively scan very young children within a stimulating environment. Our success will be measured through compliance rate and typical scan duration achievable for the child patients in the new OPM system at Young Epilepsy.