Quantitative optical spectroscopy for tissue diagnosis

R Richards-Kortum… - Annual review of physical …, 1996 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The interaction of light within tissue has been used to recognize disease since the
mid-1800s. The recent developments of small light sources, detectors, and fiber optic probes …

Non-invasive NIR spectroscopy of human brain function during exercise

S Perrey - Methods, 2008 - Elsevier
The assessment of physiological changes associated with brain activity has become
possible by optical methods, such as near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). NIRS is a useful …

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 …

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 …

Optical pathlength measurements on adult head, calf and forearm and the head of the newborn infant using phase resolved optical spectroscopy

A Duncan, JH Meek, M Clemence… - Physics in Medicine …, 1995 - iopscience.iop.org
The authors have used an intensity modulated optical spectrometer, which measures the
phase shift across tissue experienced by intensity modulated near-infrared light, to …

The theoretical basis for the determination of optical pathlengths in tissue: temporal and frequency analysis

SR Arridge, M Cope, DT Delpy - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 1992 - iopscience.iop.org
A concise theoretical treatment is developed for the calculation of mean time, differential
pathlength, phase shift, modulation depth and integrated intensity of measurements of light …

[HTML][HTML] Measurement of cranial optical path length as a function of age using phase resolved near infrared spectroscopy

A Duncan, JH Meek, M Clemence, CE Elwell… - Pediatric …, 1996 - nature.com
Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) has been used to measure concentration changes of
cerebral hemoglobin and cytochrome in neonates, children, and adults, to study cerebral …

Simultaneous recording of cerebral blood oxygenation changes during human brain activation by magnetic resonance imaging and near-infrared spectroscopy

A Kleinschmidt, H Obrig, M Requardt… - Journal of cerebral …, 1996 - journals.sagepub.com
Changes in cerebral blood oxygenation due to functional activation of the primary
sensorimotor cortex during a unilateral finger opposition task were simultaneously mapped …

A Monte Carlo investigation of optical pathlength in inhomogeneous tissue and its application to near-infrared spectroscopy

M Hiraoka, M Firbank, M Essenpreis… - Physics in Medicine …, 1993 - iopscience.iop.org
In order to quantify near-infrared spectroscopic (NIRS) data on an inhomogeneous medium,
knowledge of the contribution of the various parts of the medium to the total NIRS signal is …

Simulation of near-infrared light absorption considering individual head and prefrontal cortex anatomy: implications for optical neuroimaging

FB Haeussinger, S Heinzel, T Hahn, M Schecklmann… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is an established optical neuroimaging
method for measuring functional hemodynamic responses to infer neural activation …