Somatosensory evoked fast optical intensity changes detected non-invasively in the adult human head

J Steinbrink, M Kohl, H Obrig, G Curio, F Syre… - Neuroscience …, 2000 - Elsevier
This work is the first to report optical intensity changes (ΔI/I≈ 0.05%) with a latency between
60 and 160ms after electrical median nerve stimulation at 5Hz detected non-invasively …

The event-related optical signal to electrical stimulation of the median nerve

EL Maclin, KA Low, JJ Sable, M Fabiani, G Gratton - Neuroimage, 2004 - Elsevier
The event-related optical signal (EROS) uses near-infrared light to study changes in
neuronal optical properties in response to stimuli and endogenous events. EROS responses …

Stimulus parameters influence characteristics of optical intrinsic signal responses in somatosensory cortex

AJ Blood, SM Narayan… - Journal of Cerebral Blood …, 1995 - journals.sagepub.com
Optical imaging of intrinsic signals was performed in the barrel cortex of the rat during
whisker deflections of varying frequencies (1 to 20 Hz) and durations (0.1 to 5 s). A dose …

The fast optical signal—robust or elusive when non-invasively measured in the human adult?

J Steinbrink, FCD Kempf, A Villringer, H Obrig - Neuroimage, 2005 - Elsevier
Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) can detect vascular changes in cerebral cortical tissue
elicited by functional stimulation. For some 10 years, another optical signal has been …

Effects of measurement method, wavelength, and source-detector distance on the fast optical signal

G Gratton, CR Brumback, BA Gordon, MA Pearson… - Neuroimage, 2006 - Elsevier
Fast optical signals can be used to study the time course of neuronal activity in localized
cortical areas. The first report of such signals [Gratton, G., Corballis, PM, Cho, E., Fabiani, M …

[HTML][HTML] Bright light transmits through the brain: Measurement of photon emissions and frequency-dependent modulation of spectral electroencephalographic power

MA Persinger, BT Dotta, KS Saroka - World Journal of Neuroscience, 2013 - scirp.org
Photons are emitted during brain activity and when applied externally alter its functional
connectivity during the resting state. In the present study we applied constant or time varying …

Reassessment of activity-related optical signals in somatosensory cortex by an algorithm with wavelength-dependent path length

C Sato, M Nemoto, M Tamura - The Japanese journal of physiology, 2002 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Incorporating the wavelength dependence of the scattering effect into a simple linear
multicomponent analysis of intrinsic optical signals, we have reexamined the change in the …

Cognition-activated low-frequency modulation of light absorption in human brain.

B Chance, Z Zhuang, C UnAh… - Proceedings of the …, 1993 - National Acad Sciences
Animal model studies indicate light-absorption changes of the exposed animal brain in
response to visual stimulation. Here we report observations of red-light absorbance …

Rapid changes of optical parameters in the human brain during a tapping task

G Gratton, M Fabiani, D Friedman… - Journal of Cognitive …, 1995 - direct.mit.edu
Measures of parameters of the migration of near-infrared photons through the head
(attenuation, or intensity, and time-of-flight, or delay) have been proposed as a way of …

A theoretical study of the signal contribution of regions of the adult head to near-infrared spectroscopy studies of visual evoked responses

M Firbank, E Okada, DT Delpy - Neuroimage, 1998 - Elsevier
Near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy has been used in studies of the cerebral hemodynamic
response to visual processing. In this paper, we present theoretical results from finite …