Functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS): An emerging neuroimaging technology with important applications for the study of brain disorders

Clinical Neuropsychologist

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 9-37

  Irani, Farzin ^a   Platek, Steven M ^a   Bunce, Scott ^a   Ruocco, Anthony C ^a   Chute, Douglas ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN; OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BLOOD OXYGENATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; NEUROIMAGING; PANIC; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; DELIRIUM, DEMENTIA, AMNESTIC, COGNITIVE DISORDERS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENTAL DISORDERS; NEURONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED;

EID: 33847107067     PISSN: 13854046     EISSN: 17444144     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13854040600910018     Document Type: Review

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