The physics of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

RB Buxton - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is a methodology for detecting dynamic
patterns of activity in the working human brain. Although the initial discoveries that led to …

Prefrontal cortex and executive function in young children: a review of NIRS studies

Y Moriguchi, K Hiraki - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Executive function (EF) refers to the higher-order cognitive control process for the attainment
of a specific goal. There are several subcomponents of EF, such as inhibition, cognitive …

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 …

NIRS-based hyperscanning reveals increased interpersonal coherence in superior frontal cortex during cooperation

X Cui, DM Bryant, AL Reiss - Neuroimage, 2012 - Elsevier
We used Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) to simultaneously measure brain activity in two
people while they played a computer-based cooperation game side by side. Inter-brain …

Functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS): an emerging neuroimaging technology with important applications for the study of brain disorders

F Irani, SM Platek, S Bunce, AC Ruocco… - The Clinical …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is an emerging functional neuroimaging
technology offering a relatively non-invasive, safe, portable, and low-cost method of indirect …

Dynamic models of BOLD contrast

RB Buxton - Neuroimage, 2012 - Elsevier
This personal recollection looks at the evolution of ideas about the dynamics of the blood
oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) signal, with an emphasis on the balloon model. From …

Assessment of mental stress effects on prefrontal cortical activities using canonical correlation analysis: an fNIRS-EEG study

F Al-Shargie, TB Tang, M Kiguchi - Biomedical optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
This paper presents an investigation about the effects of mental stress on prefrontal cortex
(PFC) subregions using simultaneous measurement of functional Near-Infrared …

Model-based analysis of rapid event-related functional near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) data: a parametric validation study

MM Plichta, S Heinzel, AC Ehlis, P Pauli, AJ Fallgatter - Neuroimage, 2007 - Elsevier
To validate the usefulness of a model-based analysis approach according to the general
linear model (GLM) for functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) data, a rapid event …

A data-driven sparse GLM for fMRI analysis using sparse dictionary learning with MDL criterion

K Lee, S Tak, JC Ye - IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose a novel statistical analysis method for functional magnetic resonance imaging
(fMRI) to overcome the drawbacks of conventional data-driven methods such as the …

A NIRS–fMRI study of resting state network

S Sasai, F Homae, H Watanabe, AT Sasaki… - Neuroimage, 2012 - Elsevier
Resting state functional connectivity, which is defined as temporal correlation of
spontaneous activity between diverse brain regions, has been reported to form resting state …