COMBINE - Linking electrophysiological and vascular brain responses
September 3rd - 4th 2026
The workshop will bring together neuroimaging experts utilizing functional near infrared spectroscopy and magnetoencephalography with optically pumped magnetometers. Additionally, multi-modal imaging, other sensing modalities, advances in paradigma design, and toolboxes for data analysis will be covered. The workshop is open to all. To register send an e-mail with your name and affiliation to: meg(at)ptb.de . Please do register before 20.8., the fee will be 100 Euro covering attendance, meals, and coffee breaks.
Organised by
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
Abbestraße 2-12, 10587 Berlin
Location: Lecture Hall Herrmann-von-Helmholtz-Bau
September 3rd 2026
09:00 - 09:15 Welcome address Urban Marhl / Till Sander | |
Session 1 Chair: Stan Wojtkiewicz (Warsaw) | |
09:15 – 9:50 | Hybrid Diffuse Optical Monitoring to Protect the Neonatal Brain During and Beyond Cardiac Surgery Melih Can (Barcelona) |
09:50 - 10:25 | Decoding the brain in photons and time Hamid Dehghani (Birmingham) |
Coffee break (30 minutes)
Session 2 Chair: Till Sander (Berlin) | |
| 10:55 - 11:30 | Neurovascular (un)coupling and fNIRS: Basics, challenges and new opportunities Wieland Lackinger (Zürich) |
11:30 - 12:05 | Benchmarking OPM-MEG and development of hybrid MEG-DCS Christoph Pfeiffer (Stockholm) |
12:05 – 12:40 | Single trial EEG and MEG transient event characteristics during photic stimulation Jens Haueisen (Ilmenau) |
Lunch break (1 hour 30 minutes)
Session 3 Chair: Vojko Jazbinšek (Ljubljana) | |
14:10 - 14:45 | From data standardization to quality control: BIDS manager and MEEGqc for reproducible MEEG neuroimaging Karel López Vilaret (Oldenburg) |
14:45 - 15:20 | Development of dry electrodes for rapid EEG: progress, concepts, and considerations Patrique Fiedler (Ilmenau) |
Coffee break (30 minutes)
Session 4 Chair: Karel López Vilaret (Oldenburg) | |
15:50 – 16:25 | Identification of neuronal sources during sustained motor activity Urban Marhl (Ljubljana) |
16:25 – 17:00 | Temporal profiles of vascular and neuronal responses Pichaya Tappayuthpijarn (Berlin) |
Evening activities | |
17:00 – 18:00 | Tour of laboratories at PTB |
| Free evening to explore Berlin |
September 4th 2026
Session 5 Chair: Piotr Sawosz (Warsaw) | |
9:00 – 9:35 | Modal Transfer Entropy Mapping of Neurovascular Coupling in Hyperacute Stroke During Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation – RETRAIN phase 2 study Anirban Dutta (Birmingham) |
9:35 - 10:10
| Naturalistic brain imaging with wearable fNIRS and DOT: A perspective on multimodal acquisition and data-driven analysis Alexander von Lühmann (Berlin) |
Coffee break (20 minutes)
Session 6 Chair: Anne Fabricant (Berlin) | |
10:30- 11:45
| Industry session on fNIRS, EEG, and OPM-MEG NIRx, optohive, brainoptics, ANT neuro |
11:45 – 12:30
| Hands on with commercial devices
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Lunch break (1:30 hour)
Session 7 Chair: Pichaya Tappayuthpijarn (Berlin) | |
14:00 - 14:35 | Cedalion: A unified Python framework for multimodal fNIRS/DOT, from the lab to the everyday world Eike Middell (Berlin) |
14:35 - 15:10 | n.n. Urban Marhl (Ljubljana) |
15:10-15:20 Closing Adam Liebert / Till Sander | |
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