論文

査読有り
2015年

Estimation of crosstalk in LED fNIRS by photon propagation Monte Carlo simulation

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
  • Takayuki Iwano
  • ,
  • Shinji Umeyama

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記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)
DOI
10.1117/12.2204999
出版者・発行元
SPIE

fNIRS (functional near-Infrared spectroscopy) can measure brain activity non-invasively and has advantages such as low cost and portability. While the conventional fNIRS has used laser light, LED light fNIRS is recently becoming common in use. Using LED for fNIRS, equipment can be more inexpensive and more portable. LED light, however, has a wider illumination spectrum than laser light, which may change crosstalk between the calculated concentration change of oxygenated and deoxygenated hemoglobins. The crosstalk is caused by difference in light path length in the head tissues depending on wavelengths used. We conducted Monte Carlo simulations of photon propagation in the tissue layers of head (scalp, skull, CSF, gray matter, and white matter) to estimate the light path length in each layers. Based on the estimated path lengths, the crosstalk in fNIRS using LED light was calculated. Our results showed that LED light more increases the crosstalk than laser light does when certain combinations of wavelengths were adopted. Even in such cases, the crosstalk increased by using LED light can be effectively suppressed by replacing the value of extinction coefficients used in the hemoglobin calculation to their weighted average over illumination spectrum.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2204999
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1117/12.2204999
  • ISSN : 1605-7422
  • SCOPUS ID : 84958671283

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