We present the design of a low-cost system for recording galvanic skin conductance responses (SCRs) from humans in a magnetically shielded room (MSR) simultaneously to magnetoencephalography (MEG). Such a system was so far not available to the MEG community. Its availability is of utmost importance for neuroscience, since it will allow the concurrent assessment of the autonomic and central nervous system activity. The overall system design optimizes high signal to noise ratio (SNR) of SCRs and achieves minimal distortion of the MEG signal. Its development was based on a fiber-optic transformer, with voltage to optical transduction inside the MSR and demodulation outside the MSR. The system was calibrated and tested inside the MEG environment by using a 151-channel CTF whole head system (VSM MedTech Ltd.). MEG measurements were recorded simultaneously to SCRs from five healthy participants to test whether the developed system does not generate artifacts in the MEG data. Two measurements were performed for each participant; one without the system in the MSR, and one with the system in the MSR, connected to the participant and in operation. The data were analyzed using the time and frequency domains in separate statistical analysis. No significant differences were observed between the two sessions for any statistic index. Our results show that the system allows high quality simultaneous recordings of SCRs and MEG signals in the MSR, and can therefore be used as routine addendum to neuroscience experiments.

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我们介绍了一种低成本系统的设计,该系统用于同时记录磁屏蔽室 (MSR) 中人类的皮肤电传导响应 (scr) 到脑磁图 (MEG)。到目前为止,MEG社区还没有这样的系统。它的可用性对于神经科学至关重要,因为它将允许同时评估自主神经和中枢神经系统的活动。整个系统设计优化了scr的高信噪比 (SNR),并实现了MEG信号的最小失真。它的开发基于光纤变压器,在MSR内部具有电压到光转换,在MSR外部具有解调功能。通过使用151通道CTF整体头系统 (VSM MedTech Ltd.) 在MEG环境内对系统进行了校准和测试。MEG测量值同时记录到来自五个健康参与者的scr中,以测试开发的系统是否不会在MEG数据中生成伪像。对每个参与者进行了两次测量; 一个在MSR中没有系统,一个在MSR中没有系统,连接到参与者并正在运行。在单独的统计分析中使用时域和频域对数据进行分析。对于任何统计指标,两次会议之间均未观察到显着差异。我们的结果表明,该系统可以在MSR中高质量同时记录scr和MEG信号,因此可以用作神经科学实验的常规附录。

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