BASIs - Bioelectromagnetic sensing and imaging

Many people in old age suffer from neurological or cardiovascular diseases such as heart attacks or strokes. These diseases represent both a massive restriction of the quality of life of the individual and an enormous social and economic problem. Bioelectromagnetic methods are essential for clinical diagnostics in neurology and cardiology and have enormous potential for personalized medical care.
The goal of the BASIs project is the research, development and validation of new sensor technologies and signal analysis methods, which provide the basis for new possibilities in diagnostics and personalized medicine.
The Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Informatics (BMTI) is a world leader in the development of a new class of bioelectrical sensors, the dry electrodes. The Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (IPHT) Jena is the world leader in quantum and optically pumped magnetometers. Both sensor types are ideally suited for use in personalized medicine. The Department of Neurology of the UKJ is a leader in the field of stroke and neurorehabilitation. These expertises are to be combined for a new diagnostic system.
The new sensors offer a higher sensitivity, small size and can be arranged flexibly, offering completely new possibilities for signal acquisition and analysis. Therefore, completely new research questions arise, such as the optimization of the sensor arrangement, the combination of electrical and magnetic measurements and methods for the spatial-temporal decomposition of multidimensional data. The new techniques must also be validated, which is achieved by phantom measurements and comparisons with conventional measurement systems.