[Open-rtms-list] Would infrared sensors work as contacts?

[Joley B. <bro...@co...>]

The magnetic coils is a really inexpensive model for the eeg output,
but would infrared perhaps give the same or perhaps more wide spread
Signal Out? It seems the coils give a narrower set of responses. I'm
probably a bit off the path on that. But IR sensors measure heat with
say, 1/100th of a degree F. What I would have to fill in with that
equation, how much heat would be generated, and how quickly, by any
small neural clusters? The reason I could most easily justify is that
the higher intensity from the sensor electromagnet might be hazardous.
It's one of the cautions of doing these measurements. An IR sensor would
be a lot more passive,yes? and calibrated to watch a wider scan of those
clusters, more of them. To a processor the output of light vs a more
intensive part of the electro-magnetic spectrum would be a set of
numbers. Like representing a melody in F minor being played in a higher
key. It's 0300 local time and I should get some sleep before looking at
this again.