Somatosensory evoked fast optical intensity changes detected non- invasively in the adult human head

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 291, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 105-108

  Steinbrink, J ^a,b   Kohl, M ^a   Obrig, H ^a   Curio, G ^c   Syre F ^a   Thomas, F ^a   Wabnitz, H ^b   Rinneberg, H ^b   Villringer, A ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Event related intensity change; Event related optical signals; Fast optical signals; Near infrared spectroscopy; Optical imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; MALE; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED;

EID: 0034665979     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01395-1     Document Type: Article

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