Engineering Project

Porous Phantom

An EEG phantom build for validating recording pipelines, testing signal processing approaches, and creating repeatable laboratory workflows.

Illustration of the porous phantom project

Project Overview

The porous phantom project is designed to approximate the electrical and structural behaviour of biological tissue in a controlled setting. It provides a stable platform for checking whether acquisition and analysis methods behave as expected before they are deployed in more variable experimental environments.

This makes it useful for iterating on electrode placement, comparing filtering strategies, and understanding how different configurations influence the recorded signal.

Why It Matters

EEG and biosignal workflows often depend on equipment that must be validated repeatedly under consistent conditions. A porous phantom helps isolate the behaviour of the measurement chain from the complexity of the biological system, making it easier to identify genuine improvements and avoid false confidence in a new setup.

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