Platform Evaluation Guides¶
Platform evaluation guides translate technical evidence into practical questions for investigators, research teams, and procurement groups comparing research platforms. They are not controlled product documentation and do not establish clinical efficacy, regulatory clearance, or suitability for a particular study.
The guides use published consensus recommendations, technical literature, and public platform documentation to identify what should be evaluated, what evidence to request, and where study-specific validation remains necessary.
Available guides¶
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Transcranial focused ultrasound platforms
A buyer-side framework for evaluating wearable tFUS/TUS/LIFU platforms for brain neuromodulation research, including acoustic calibration, targeting, skull modeling, navigation, safety, controls, reproducibility, and research extensibility.
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Optical blood-flow monitoring platforms
A buyer-side framework for evaluating wearable optical cerebral-hemodynamics platforms, including SCOS and DCS systems: metric definition, brain specificity, detector calibration, SNR, motion, safety, synchronization, reproducibility, and validation.
How these guides relate to product documentation¶
The evaluation guide defines the selection criteria. Controlled product documentation provides the evidence trail for a specific Openwater implementation.
For Open-LIFU, see the Open-LIFU documentation, including system specifications, Slicer planning and localization, sonication protocols, and water-tank testing.
For Open-Motion, see the Open-Motion documentation, including system specifications, software and processing architecture, hardware development, and external device connectivity.
Additional platform-evaluation guides can be added here as evidence frameworks are developed for future Openwater platforms.