Human cardiac measurements with diamond magnetometers
Muhib Omar, Magnus Benke, Shaowen Zhang, Jixing Zhang, Yihua Wang, Michael Kuebler, Pouya Sharbati, Ara Rahimpour, Arno Gück, Maryna Kapitonova, Devyani Kadam, Carlos René Izquierdo Geiser, Jens Haller, Arno Trautmann, Katharina Jag-Lauber, Robert Rölver, Thanh-Duc Nguyen, Leonardo Gizzi, Michelle S · 2026
Read Human cardiac measurements with diamond magnetometers by Muhib Omar, Magnus Benke, Shaowen Zhang, Jixing Zhang, Yihua Wang, Michael Kuebler, Pouya Sharbati, Ara Rahimpour, Arno Gück, Maryna Kapitonova, Devyani Kadam, Carlos René Izquierdo Geiser, Jens Haller, Arno Trautmann, Katharina Jag-Lauber, Robert Rölver, Thanh-Duc Nguyen, Leonardo Gizzi, Michelle S (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-13580569.txt.
Description
The heart's magnetic whisper can reveal its electrical health, but hearing it without a shielded vault has been the barrier. Muhib Omar and co-authors clear a path in a 2026 study with magnetometers built from diamond defects. The palm-sized quantum sensors work at room temperature on the chest, no contact needed beyond placement.
Averaging over many beats and suppressing noise produced clear heartbeat magnetic traces even outside heavy shielding. A two-sensor differencing scheme was also tested for noisy wards. Real-time single-beat reading is not here yet, but the authors show the route toward practical bedside magnetic heart and brain checks.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Muhib Omar, Magnus Benke, Shaowen Zhang, Jixing Zhang, Yihua Wang, Michael Kuebler, Pouya Sharbati, Ara Rahimpour, Arno Gück, Maryna Kapitonova, Devyani Kadam, Carlos René Izquierdo Geiser, Jens Haller, Arno Trautmann, Katharina Jag-Lauber, Robert Rölver, Thanh-Duc Nguyen, Leonardo Gizzi, Michelle S |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |