Improved sensitivity to cerebral hemodynamics during brain activation with a time-gated optical system: Analytical model and experimental validation

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Selb, Juliette ^a   Stott, Jonathan J ^a   Franceschini, Maria Angela ^a   Sorensen, A Gregory ^a   Boas, David A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Depth resolved imaging; Diffuse optical tomography; Functional brain imaging; Light propagation in tissues; Time domain system

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; OPTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; VALIDATION STUDY;

ARTIFACTS; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; OPTICS; TIME FACTORS; HEMODYNAMICS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS;

BRAIN; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHOTONS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

BRAIN ACTIVATION; CEREBRAL HEMODYNAMICS; DEPTH RESOLVED IMAGING; DIFFUSE OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL BRAIN IMAGING; OPTICAL MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; TIME DOMAIN SYSTEM;

HEMODYNAMICS;

EID: 18144376698     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1852553     Document Type: Article

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