Optical fibre pressure sensors in medical applications

S Poeggel, D Tosi, DB Duraibabu, G Leen, D McGrath… - Sensors, 2015 - mdpi.com
This article is focused on reviewing the current state-of-the-art of optical fibre pressure
sensors for medical applications. Optical fibres have inherent advantages due to their small …

Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) in traumatic brain injury (TBI)

M Roldán, PA Kyriacou - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurs when a sudden trauma causes damage to the brain. TBI
can result when the head suddenly and violently impacts an object or when an object …

Cerebral blood flow and autoregulation: current measurement techniques and prospects for noninvasive optical methods

S Fantini, A Sassaroli, KT Tgavalekos… - …, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Cerebral blood flow (CBF) and cerebral autoregulation (CA) are critically important to
maintain proper brain perfusion and supply the brain with the necessary oxygen and energy …

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 …

Diffuse correlation spectroscopy for measurement of cerebral blood flow: future prospects

EM Buckley, AB Parthasarathy, PE Grant… - …, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) is an emerging optical modality used to measure
cortical cerebral blood flow. This outlook presents a brief overview of the technology …

Fast blood flow monitoring in deep tissues with real-time software correlators

D Wang, AB Parthasarathy, WB Baker… - Biomedical optics …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We introduce, validate and demonstrate a new software correlator for high-speed
measurement of blood flow in deep tissues based on diffuse correlation spectroscopy …

Improved accuracy of cerebral blood flow quantification in the presence of systemic physiology cross-talk using multi-layer Monte Carlo modeling

MM Wu, ST Chan, D Mazumder, D Tamborini… - …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Significance: Contamination of diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) measurements of
cerebral blood flow (CBF) due to systemic physiology remains a significant challenge in the …

Neuromonitoring in critically ill patients

S Rajagopalan, A Sarwal - Critical Care Medicine, 2023 - journals.lww.com
OBJECTIVES: Critically ill patients are at high risk of acute brain injury. Bedside
multimodality neuromonitoring techniques can provide a direct assessment of physiologic …

Optical bedside monitoring of cerebral blood flow in acute ischemic stroke patients during head-of-bed manipulation

CG Favilla, RC Mesquita, M Mullen, T Durduran, X Lu… - Stroke, 2014 - Am Heart Assoc
Background and Purpose—A primary goal of acute ischemic stroke (AIS) management is to
maximize perfusion in the affected region and surrounding ischemic penumbra. However …

Integration of spatial information increases reproducibility in functional near-infrared spectroscopy

SL Novi, EJ Forero, JAI Rubianes Silva… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
As functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is developed as a neuroimaging technique
and becomes an option to study a variety of populations and tasks, the reproducibility of the …