Advanced Optical Methods for Functional Brain Imaging: Time-Domain Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy

Advances in Optical Imaging for Clinical Medicine

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 287-305

  Torricelli, Alessandro ^a   Contini, Davide ^a   Spinelli, Lorenzo ^b   Caffini, Matteo ^a   Pifferi, Antonio ^a   Cubeddu, Rinaldo ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b IFN CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Advanced optical methods, for functional brain imaging time domain functional near infrared spectroscopy; Optical imaging, of depth resolved functional activity in cortex; Optical technologies for noninvasive neural activity mapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959711908     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470767061.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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