Development, set-up and first results for a one-channel near-infrared spectroscopy system

Biomedizinische Technik

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 36-43

  Bauernfeind, Günther ^a   Leeb, Robert ^a   Wriessnegger, Selina Christin ^b   Pfurtscheller, Gert ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Deoxyhemoglobin; Mental arithmetic tasks; Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS); Oxyhemoglobin

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOGLOBIN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN; MENTAL ARITHMETIC TASKS; OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN; OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROIMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MALE; OXYHEMOGLOBINS; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED;

EID: 38949217777     PISSN: 00135585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BMT.2008.005     Document Type: Article

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