Torricelli, Alessandro and Contini, Davide and Dalla Mora, Alberto and Pifferi, Antonio and Re, Rebecca and Zucchelli, Lucia and Caffini, Matteo and Farina, Andrea and Spinelli, Lorenzo (2014) Neurophotonics: non-invasive optical techniques for monitoring brain functions. Functional Neurology, 29 (4). pp. 223-230. ISSN 1971-3274
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Abstract
The aim of this review is to present the state of the art of neurophotonics, a recently founded discipline lying at the interface between optics and neuroscience. While neurophotonics also includes invasive techniques for animal studies, in this review we focus only on the non-invasive methods that use near infrared light to probe functional activity in the brain, namely the fast optical signal, diffuse correlation spectroscopy, and functional near infrared spectroscopy methods. We also present an overview of the physical principles of light propagation in biological tissues, and of the main physiological sources of signal. Finally, we discuss the open issues in models, instrumentation, data analysis and clinical approaches.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | diffuse correlation spectroscopy, fast optical signal, functional near infrared spectroscopy, neurophotonics |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) |
| Depositing User: | Marina Spanti |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Dec 2015 15:36 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Dec 2015 15:36 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/11216 |
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