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ANT Neuro x optohive
Bringing HiveOne fNIRS to researchers worldwide, and building a combined EEG and fNIRS solution together.
optohive is pleased to announce a strategic collaboration with ANT Neuro to bring the HiveOne fNIRS system to research groups across Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific, and Australia.
Bringing HiveOne to researchers worldwide
Through this partnership, HiveOne becomes available to the research community ANT Neuro has served for nearly three decades. Groups working in cognition, mobility, hyperscanning, and applied neuroscience can now source fNIRS through the same regional teams that support their EEG work, with local sales contact and first-line technical support in their own market.
Beyond distribution: EEG and fNIRS, together
The partnership also extends beyond distribution. Both companies have agreed to jointly develop a combined EEG–fNIRS recording solution. The system will pair ANT Neuro’s eego™ EEG technology with optohive’s HiveOne in a hybrid cap that holds both sensor types, with the two data streams synchronized through Lab Streaming Layer.
Explore the modalities
Combined: the complete picture
EEG and fNIRS capture complementary aspects of brain activity. Recorded together in one hybrid cap and synchronized through Lab Streaming Layer, they give researchers a more complete picture of the brain, without each lab having to build the setup itself.
Why it matters
Concurrent electrophysiological and hemodynamic recording has long been a goal in neuroscience research. What has slowed its adoption is the setup work, which individual labs have largely had to solve themselves. This collaboration is intended to remove that barrier.
In their words
When we started developing fNIRS instrumentation over a decade ago, our vision was to take brain imaging to the next level and give researchers a tool that can accelerate new discoveries. The HiveOne embodies that vision, and combining it with EEG is the logical next step. EEG and fNIRS capture complementary aspects of brain activity, and bringing them together gives researchers a more complete picture of the brain. With ANT Neuro’s decades of expertise in EEG and our next-generation fNIRS technology, we have the ideal partnership to bring both worlds together in a powerful tool for multimodal neuroscience research.
Dr. Dominik Wyser, CEO, optohive AG
To realize our vision for true multimodal brain research, we were looking for a partner whose drive innovation matches ours and optohive’s approach to fNIRS stood out. Their novel usability design and sensitive sensor technology we believe will create a new benchmark in research fNIRS that we are excited bring to the market. Our joint ambition is to create a solution with our eego amplifier that makes multimodal recordings extremely simple to set up and run.
Dr. Martijn Schreuder, CEO, ANT Neuro
About the partners
About HiveOne
HiveOne is optohive AG’s functional near-infrared spectroscopy system for research applications, comprising optodes, a controller unit, and pre-assembled caps. HiveOne is manufactured by optohive AG and is intended for research use only. Discover HiveOne →
About ANT Neuro
Founded in 1997 as a spin-off of the University of Twente, ANT Neuro is a leading provider in EEG and neuronavigation solutions, serving researchers and clinicians worldwide from its headquarters in Berlin, Germany and local representations.
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