{"id":9144,"date":"2019-05-22T16:15:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/squid\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:15:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:15:24","slug":"squid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/squid\/","title":{"rendered":"SQUID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Superconducting quantuminterference devices are magnetic sensors utilizingthe&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/fy.chalmers.se\/~delsing\/LowTemp\/Labbar\/SQUIDlab-rev3.pdf\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/fy.chalmers.se\/%7Edelsing\/LowTemp\/Labbar\/SQUIDlab-rev3.pdf?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Josephson effect<\/a>&nbsp;(or tunnelling) formagnetic field recordings. &nbsp;For non-invasive magnetoencephalographic&nbsp;applications, low temperatureSQUIDs,&nbsp;cooled with liquid helium,&nbsp;are arrayed across the skull at about a distance of 15mm from the scalp, providing MEG with an advantage compared to EEG (see figure below).&nbsp; The devices allow therecording of faint magnetic fields in individual neural source currents in the human brain in the range of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu\/hbase\/Solids\/Squid2.html\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu\/hbase\/Solids\/Squid2.html?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">femto Tesla<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/SQUIDs.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" class=\"\">See Dewar, Magnetoencephalography MEG), 3-Tesla<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superconducting quantuminterference devices are magnetic sensors utilizingthe&nbsp;Josephson effect&nbsp;(or tunnelling) formagnetic field recordings. &nbsp;For non-invasive magnetoencephalographic&nbsp;applications, low temperatureSQUIDs,&nbsp;cooled with liquid helium,&nbsp;are arrayed across the skull at about a distance of 15mm from the scalp, providing MEG with an advantage compared to EEG (see figure below).&nbsp; The devices allow therecording of faint magnetic fields in individual neural &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/squid\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SQUID&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-9144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}