The ability to collect brain data with emerging portable neuroimaging technologies is revolutionizing neuroscience, but technology developers report ethical issues that need to be addressed. A new study by University of Minnesota researchers, “Scientists’ Perspectives on Ethical Issues in Research with Emerging Portable Neuroimaging Technology: The Need for Guidance on Ethical, Legal, and Societal Implications (ELSI),” interviewed engineers and scientists developing portable brain scanners. Those developers reported a lack of attention to the ethical challenges emerging in their work. To address the gap, the authors recommend that developers of these technologies work with ethics and legal experts to develop guidance. The study, published in NMR in Biomedicine, is authored by a team including Francis Daniels, a 2022 graduate of UMN Law School, with Efrain Torres, former UMN trainee and now CEO of portable MRI company Adialante. Faculty collaborators are Frances Lawrenz, PhD; Consortium Chair Susan Wolf, JD; and Consortium Co-Chair Francis X. Shen, JD, PhD. The research is supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health BRAIN Initiative.