Functional imaging of the brain using a portable NIR instrument

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4955, Issue , 2003, Pages 96-102

  Vaithianathan, Tharshan ^a   Tullis, Iain D C ^a   Everdell, Nicholas ^a   Leung, Terence ^a   Meek, Judith ^b   Delpy, David T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; OPTICAL SENSORS; PHOTODIODES; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS;

BRAIN IMAGING; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSIMPEDANCE AMPLIFIERS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 0344420337     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.478168     Document Type: Conference Paper

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