Brain Quantum Imaging

21 Oct 2025, 00:25 → 23 Oct 2025, 17:15 Europe/Berlin

HvH-Kopfbau/Hörsaal (PTB)

UPDATE!

The official abstract deadline has ended, and we received a great number of excellent abstracts. Unfortunately, this also means that not everyone who wants to give an oral presentation will get the chance to do so. We will notify each contributor individually regarding their presentation type until October 2.

Also, we decided to accept late breaking abstracts until October 9, 2025. As a consequence, the registration will be open until that date. Please note that late breaking abstracts will not get the chance for an oral presentation.

Finally, the FLUX workshop by Prof. Ole Jensen is fully booked and the registration for it has therefore been closed.

 

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We are excited to announce the Brain Quantum Imaging conference on the occasion of the opening of the joint OPM-MEG centre of Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt and Charité-Universitätsmedizin.

This two-day symposium will spotlight research and developments in Optically Pumped Magnetometer-based MEG (OPM-MEG), highlighting both basic science and emerging clinical and technological applications.

In addition to a series of distinguished keynote talks, participants will have the opportunity to present their work through oral or poster presentations. There will also be a one-day course on how to analyse OPM data using the FLUX pipeline held by Ole Jensen.

While the primary focus is on OPM-MEG, we warmly welcome general MEG submissions that contribute to our understanding of brain dynamics and support the broader MEG community.

 

Call for abstracts and registration is open now!

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Tuesday 21 October

1 Welcome and Introduction

Speakers: Peter Krüger, Peter Uhlhaas

2 From superconducting to optically pumped sensors for biomagnetism

Speaker: Gareth Barnes (Department of Imaging Neuroscience, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London)

3 SNR compared between OPM-MEG, EEG and SQUID-MEG

Speaker: Marion Brickwedde (PTB)

4 Simultaneous EEG/OPM-MEG recordings show increased sensitivity of OPM-MEG to visual gamma responses

Speaker: Dario Gordillo

10:25 Coffee Break

5 Compact, high-resolution magnetoencephalography system with optically pumped magnetometers

Speaker: Lauri Parkkonnen (Aalto University)

6 Inferring laminar origins of MEG signals with optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs): A simulation study

Speaker: Saskia Helbling

7 Quantum sensing for medicine – Hype or Hope?

Speaker: Justus Marquetand (University of Tübingen)

12:30 Lunch Break and Poster Session

8 Toward biomagnetic sensing with a high-sensitivity diamond quantum magnetometer

Speaker: Naoto Sekiguchi (Institute of Science Tokyo)

9 Longitudinal changes of aperiodic and periodic cortical activity at rest in Parkinson’s disease

Speaker: Josefine Waldthaler (Karolinska Institutet)

10 Towards spatially resolved, non-invasive single trial detection of high-frequency synchronous population spikes using SQUIDs

Speaker: Rainer Körber

11 Resting-state alpha power correlates with cortical microstructure

Speaker: Alina Studenova (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognition and Neuroscience)

12 An integrated virtual reality platform for naturalistic neuroimaging with magnetoencephalography

Speaker: Sajjad Zabbah (University College London)

13 Brain anatomy and molecular signaling predict neurophysiological dynamics

Speaker: Christina Stier (University of Münster)

14 The influence of Lorazepam on neuronal oscillations and temporal perception

Speaker: Joachim Lange (Heinrich Heine Universität)

15 Key metrics for commercial SERF-OPM multichannel systems

Speaker: Silvia Knappe-Grueneberg (PTB)

15:00 Coffee Break

16 MEG in epilepsy diagnosis, treatment and research

MEG in epilepsy diagnosis, treatment and research

Speaker: Stefan Rampp

17 High-density full-head on-scalp MEG for epilepsy

Speaker: Svenja Knappe (University of Colorado Boulder)

18 Helium optically pumped magnetometers (4He-OPM): Comparisons with cryogenic sensors and simultaneous intracerebral recordings

Speaker: Jean-Michel Badier

19 Tour of PTB-Charité OPM-MEG Centre, Campus Mitte

Speaker: Dr Jens Voigt

20 Conference Dinner, Restaurant “Weltwirtschaft”

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin

Wednesday 22 October

21 MEG based neuro-physiological markers of optimized deep brain stimulation

Speaker: Esther Florin

22 Investigating cortical oscillations during distinct dyskinetic states in Parkinson's disease with OPM MEG

Speaker: Jeroen Habets

23 Clinical Translation of brain-computer interfaces – Closing the loop with quantum sensing

Speaker: Jan Zerfowski (Charite Berlin)

10:15 Coffee Break

24 Investigating the neuronal mechanisms of reading

Speaker: Ole Jensen

25 Using OPM-MEG to study how brain function develops in infancy

Speaker: Barbara Pomiechowska

11:45 Lunch and Poster Session

26 The Dynamic Brain: From Structural Scaffolds to Embodied Rhythms Across the Lifespan

Speaker: Joachim Gross (University of Münster)

27 Advances in unshielded optically pumped alkali magnetometers

Speaker: Erling Riis (University of Strathclyde)

28 Diamond-based quantum sensing for neurosurgery

Speaker: Arne Wickenbrock (Helmholtz Institute, University of Mainz)

15:00 Coffee Break

29 Industry Presentations

VPixx, Vacuumschmelze, ANT-Neuro, FieldLine

30 Round Table: Clinical and Commercial Applications of OPMs

Speakers: Erling Riis (University of Strathclyde), Norbert Löwa (PTB), Ole Jensen (University of Oxford), Svenja Knappe (University of Colorado Boulder)

17:00 Close

Thursday 23 October

31 OPM data analysis workshop using the OPM FLUX pipeline

This compact one-day workshop will focus on data analysis using the FLUX pipeline. In several hands-on sessions, Prof. Ole Jensen will teach you the basic steps of how to process and visualise OPM-EG data.

More details coming soon!

Speaker: Ole Jensen