Taking phototherapeutics from concept to clinical launch

BM Vickerman, EM Zywot, TK Tarrant… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
More than four decades have passed since the first example of a light-activated (caged)
compound was described. In the intervening years, a large number of light-responsive …

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 correlation spectroscopy for non-invasive, micro-vascular cerebral blood flow measurement

T Durduran, AG Yodh - Neuroimage, 2014 - Elsevier
Diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) uses the temporal fluctuations of near-infrared (NIR)
light to measure cerebral blood flow (CBF) non-invasively. Here, we provide a brief history of …

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 …

A quantitative comparison of NIRS and fMRI across multiple cognitive tasks

X Cui, S Bray, DM Bryant, GH Glover, AL Reiss - Neuroimage, 2011 - Elsevier
Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is an increasingly popular technology for studying brain
function. NIRS presents several advantages relative to functional magnetic resonance …

HomER: a review of time-series analysis methods for near-infrared spectroscopy of the brain

TJ Huppert, SG Diamond, MA Franceschini… - Applied optics, 2009 - opg.optica.org
Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is a noninvasive neuroimaging tool for studying evoked
hemodynamic changes within the brain. By this technique, changes in the optical absorption …

General equation for the differential pathlength factor of the frontal human head depending on wavelength and age

F Scholkmann, M Wolf - Journal of biomedical optics, 2013 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Continuous-wave near-infrared spectroscopy and near-infrared imaging enable the
measurement of relative concentration changes in oxy-and deoxyhemoglobin and thus …

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 …

Modified Beer-Lambert law for blood flow

WB Baker, AB Parthasarathy, DR Busch… - Biomedical optics …, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We develop and validate a Modified Beer-Lambert law for blood flow based on diffuse
correlation spectroscopy (DCS) measurements. The new formulation enables blood flow …

From Jöbsis to the present day: a review of clinical near-infrared spectroscopy measurements of cerebral cytochrome-c-oxidase

G Bale, CE Elwell, I Tachtsidis - Journal of biomedical optics, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) measurements of cytochrome-c-oxidase (CCO) have the
potential to yield crucial information about cerebral metabolism at the patient bedside …