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 …

[HTML][HTML] Optical imaging and spectroscopy for the study of the human brain: status report

H Ayaz, WB Baker, G Blaney, DA Boas… - …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
This report is the second part of a comprehensive two-part series aimed at reviewing an
extensive and diverse toolkit of novel methods to explore brain health and function. While …

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 …

Monte Carlo simulation of photon migration in 3D turbid media accelerated by graphics processing units

Q Fang, DA Boas - Optics express, 2009 - opg.optica.org
We report a parallel Monte Carlo algorithm accelerated by graphics processing units (GPU)
for modeling time-resolved photon migration in arbitrary 3D turbid media. By taking …

How short is short? Optimum source–detector distance for short-separation channels in functional near-infrared spectroscopy

S Brigadoi, RJ Cooper - Neurophotonics, 2015 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In recent years, it has been demonstrated that using functional near-infrared spectroscopy
(fNIRS) channels with short separations to explicitly sample extra-cerebral tissues can …

Optical tomography: forward and inverse problems

SR Arridge, JC Schotland - Inverse problems, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
This is a review of recent mathematical and computational advances in optical tomography.
We discuss the physical foundations of forward models for light propagation on microscopic …

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 …

Mesh-based Monte Carlo method using fast ray-tracing in Plücker coordinates

Q Fang - Biomedical optics express, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We describe a fast mesh-based Monte Carlo (MC) photon migration algorithm for static and
time-resolved imaging in 3D complex media. Compared with previous works using voxel …

Quantitative analysis of transcranial and intraparenchymal light penetration in human cadaver brain tissue

CE Tedford, S DeLapp, S Jacques… - Lasers in surgery and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Background and Objective Photobiomodulation (PBM) also known as low‐level light therapy
has been used successfully for the treatment of injury and disease of the nervous system …