A brief review on the history of human functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) development and fields of application

M Ferrari, V Quaresima - Neuroimage, 2012 - Elsevier
This review is aimed at celebrating the upcoming 20th anniversary of the birth of human
functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). After the discovery in 1992 that the functional …

Diffuse optics for tissue monitoring and tomography

T Durduran, R Choe, WB Baker… - Reports on progress in …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
This review describes the diffusion model for light transport in tissues and the medical
applications of diffuse light. Diffuse optics is particularly useful for measurement of tissue …

Illuminating the developing brain: the past, present and future of functional near infrared spectroscopy

S Lloyd-Fox, A Blasi, CE Elwell - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2010 - Elsevier
A decade has passed since near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) was first applied to functional
brain imaging in infants. As part of the team that published the first functional near infrared …

Advanced time-correlated single photon counting techniques for spectroscopy and imaging in biomedical systems

W Becker, A Bergmann, GL Biscotti… - … Applications of Ultrafast …, 2004 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) is based on the detection of single photons
of a periodic light signal, measurement of the detection time of the photons, and the build-up …

Review of tissue simulating phantoms for optical spectroscopy, imaging and dosimetry

BW Pogue, MS Patterson - Journal of biomedical optics, 2006 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Optical spectroscopy, imaging, and therapy tissue phantoms must have the scattering and
absorption properties that are characteristic of human tissues, and over the past few …

Recent advances in diffuse optical imaging

AP Gibson, JC Hebden, SR Arridge - Physics in medicine & …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the current state-of-the-art of diffuse optical imaging, which is an emerging
technique for functional imaging of biological tissue. It involves generating images using …

Progress of near-infrared spectroscopy and topography for brain and muscle clinical applications

M Wolf, M Ferrari, V Quaresima - Journal of biomedical optics, 2007 - spiedigitallibrary.org
This review celebrates the 30th anniversary of the first in vivo near-infrared (NIR)
spectroscopy (NIRS) publication, which was authored by Professor Frans Jöbsis. At first …

Optical measurement of cerebral hemodynamics and oxygen metabolism in neonates with congenital heart defects

T Durduran, C Zhou, EM Buckley… - … of biomedical optics, 2010 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We employ a hybrid diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) and near-infrared spectroscopy
(NIRS) monitor for neonates with congenital heart disease (n= 33). The NIRS-DCS device …

[HTML][HTML] Brain specificity of diffuse optical imaging: improvements from superficial signal regression and tomography

NM Gregg, BR White, BW Zeff, AJ Berger… - Frontiers in …, 2010 - frontiersin.org
Functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a portable monitor of cerebral
hemodynamics with wide clinical potential. However, in fNIRS, the vascular signal from the …

Quantitative optical tomography of sub-surface heterogeneities using spatially modulated structured light

SD Konecky, A Mazhar, D Cuccia, AJ Durkin… - Optics express, 2009 - opg.optica.org
We present a wide-field method for obtaining three-dimensional images of turbid media. By
projecting patterns of light of varying spatial frequencies on a sample, we reconstruct …