Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS): a new tool to study hemodynamic changes during activation of brain function in human adults

A Villringer, J Planck, C Hock, L Schleinkofer… - Neuroscience …, 1993 - Elsevier
In healthy human adults, cerebral concentrations of oxygenated hemoglobin ([HbO 2]) and
deoxygenated hemoglobin ([HbR]) were assessed during brain activation using near …

Age dependency of changes in cerebral hemoglobin oxygenation during brain activation: a near-infrared spectroscopy study

C Hock, F Müller-Spahn… - Journal of Cerebral …, 1995 - journals.sagepub.com
We used near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) to study noninvasively the influence of aging on
changes in the local concentration of oxygenated hemoglobin ([HbO2]), reduced …

Frontal activation during a verbal-fluency task as measured by near-infrared spectroscopy

MJ Herrmann, AC Ehlis, AJ Fallgatter - Brain Research Bulletin, 2003 - Elsevier
Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is an optical method which allows non-invasive in vivo
measurements of concentration changes of oxygenated hemoglobin (O2Hb) and …

Near infrared spectroscopy in the diagnosis of alzheimer's disease a

C Hock, K Villringer, F Müller‐Spahn… - Annals of the New …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is a new technique that permits noninvasive monitoring
of cerebral blood and tissue oxygenation. Recently, we and others have shown that NIRS …

Hemodynamic signals in fNIRS

Y Hoshi - Progress in brain research, 2016 - Elsevier
Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) was originally designed for clinical monitoring of tissue
oxygenation, and it has also been developed into a useful tool in neuroimaging studies, with …

Functional near‐infrared spectroscopy: potential and limitations in neuroimaging studies

Y Hoshi - International Review of Neurobiology, 2005 - Elsevier
Near‐infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), a noninvasive optical technique, can measure changes
in hemoglobin (Hb) concentrations in brain tissue. Jöbsis first described the in vivo …

Twenty years of functional near-infrared spectroscopy: introduction for the special issue

DA Boas, CE Elwell, M Ferrari, G Taga - Neuroimage, 2014 - Elsevier
Papers from four different groups were published in 1993 demonstrating the ability of
functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to non-invasively measure hemoglobin …

Cerebral hemodynamics measured with simultaneous PET and near-infrared spectroscopy in humans

E Rostrup, I Law, F Pott, K Ide, GM Knudsen - Brain research, 2002 - Elsevier
Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) enables continuous non-invasive quantification of blood
and tissue oxygenation, and may be useful for quantification of cerebral blood volume (CBV) …

Near-infrared spectroscopy: does it function in functional activation studies of the adult brain?

H Obrig, R Wenzel, M Kohl, S Horst, P Wobst… - International Journal of …, 2000 - Elsevier
Changes in optical properties of biological tissue can be examined by near-infrared
spectroscopy (NIRS). The relative transparency of tissues including the skull to near-infrared …

Linear aspects of changes in deoxygenated hemoglobin concentration and cytochrome oxidase oxidation during brain activation

P Wobst, R Wenzel, M Kohl, H Obrig, A Villringer - Neuroimage, 2001 - Elsevier
We used near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) to investigate the vascular and metabolic
response to brain activation in human primary and adjacent secondary visual cortex. NIRS is …