Sarang Dalal

Obstetricians and neuroscientists sorely lack direct measures of fetal brain function to monitor high-risk pregnancies and study human brain development.

Fetal magnetoencephalography (MEG) measures the faint magnetic signals of the fetal brain with sensors over the mother’s abdomen but has required a specially shaped MEG system only available in three labs worldwide due to its expense.

This project therefore aims to develop a fetal MEG to reliably track brain function in the human fetus and potentially making this monitoring far more accessible to clinicians and researchers around the world.