About Us
Gowerlabs is an optical neuroimaging company that has been developing, manufacturing and selling functional near-infrared spectroscopy technologies worldwide since 2013.
Developed by an expert team of engineers and physicists with decades of experience in the field, our non-invasive near-infrared imaging devices are being used around the world. We are proud to support the brilliant doctors, scientists and engineers that work with our ground-breaking systems.
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The NTS fNIRS system was developed by Gowerlabs CEO Dr Nick Everdell and Prof. David Delpy, one of the pioneers of fNIRS. It was designed to be flexible, smaller and less complex than existing optical topography systems, to enable application to a wide variety of experimental and clinical investigations (Everdell, 2005). Featuring up to 16 sources and 16 detectors, the NTS facilitates full head coverage with high spatial and temporal resolution. Multiple source-detector separations enable three-dimensional tomographic image reconstruction.
In 2013, Dr Everdell founded Gowerlabs Ltd to begin producing the NTS commercially, allowing this innovative technology to be available for researchers worldwide. The system is in use across four continents, enabling numerous high profile and high impact applications since its inception.
As a robust, non-invasive, and portable device, the NTS has been used successfully in challenging environments, from remote regions in developing countries to ICUs in the UK.
The NTS fNIRS system with integrated EEG on a newborn at the Evelyn Perinatal Imaging Centre
The LUMO device on a newborn in a home environment as part of the PIPKIN study
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With decades of experience in the field, we were familiar with the limitations of traditional devices, such as cumbersome optical fibre bundles, limited channel count, and a time consuming setup process. Gowerlabs changed all of this with a completely novel approach: removing fibres, and placing all the electronics and optics directly on the head.
In 2019 we officially launched LUMO: a wearable, scalable, high-density brain imaging technology with unprecedented functional imaging capability.
At the heart of LUMO is the tile: a revolutionary patented hexagonal sensor module that houses three sources and four detectors of near-infrared light. By enabling measurements both within and across tiles, up to 48 fNIRS channels can be obtained using just two LUMO tiles. By connecting multiple tiles into our specially designed headgear, users can instantly create high-density fNIRS arrays that enable 3D functional brain imaging at a resolution comparable to that of fMRI, and all in a wearable, easy-to-use and subject-friendly package.
Gowerlabs is a research & development company at its core, so we are constantly improving and developing LUMO to ensure it remains a cutting edge technology able to help you achieve your research goals, no matter how ambitious they are.
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