Department of Pharmacology, Temple University School of Medicine, 3420 N. Broad Street,
3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA Near-infrared spectrophotometry (NIRS) is a new …

In the near-infrared region, two chromophores of biological interest, haemoglobin and
cytochrome a, a 3, have specific absorption bands, which respond to the oxygenation state …

NIR REFLECTION MEASUREMENTS OF HEMOGLOBIN AND CYTOCHROME aa3 IN
HEALTHY TISSUE AND TUMORS Page 1 NIR REFLECTION MEASUREMENTS OF …

Near-infrared spectroscopy in the diagnosis of mitochondrial disorders Page 1 BioFactors 7
(1998) 243–245 243 IOS Press Near-infrared spectroscopy in the diagnosis of mitochondrial …

Noninvasive approaches to mitochondrial myopathies: Optical spectroscopy and imaging Page
1 BioFactors 7 (1998) 237–238 237 IOS Press Noninvasive approaches to mitochondrial …

Disorders of mitochondrial metabolism are manifest by inordinate fatigue, weakness, as well
as severe neuromuscular disorders. Diagnosis has required pathologic findings on muscle …

Near infrared (IR) spectroscopy can give continuous, direct information about cerebral
oxygenation in vivo by providing signals from oxygenated and deoxygenated haemoglobin …

In contrast to the conventional approaches using single wavelengths the whole spectrum
approach monitors optical changes across a continuous spectrum in the near infrared. By …

During the second half of the 19th century it was discovered that blood cells contain a
colouring substance whose spectrum is influenced by various blood gases [Hoppe, 1862] …

Optical monitoring of living tissues in the near-infrared (NIR) region of the spectrum (700 to
1300 nm) was first demonstrated some 30 years ago by Professor Frans F. Jöbsis of Duke …