Within-subject reproducibility of near-infrared spectroscopy signals in sensorimotor activation after 6 months

Hiroki Sato; Masashi Kiguchi; Atsushi Maki; Yutaka Fuchino; Akiko Obata; Takeshi Yoro; Hideaki Koizumi

doi:10.1117/1.2166632

1 January 2006 Within-subject reproducibility of near-infrared spectroscopy signals in sensorimotor activation after 6 months

Hiroki Sato, Masashi Kiguchi, Atsushi Maki, Yutaka Fuchino, Akiko Obata, Takeshi Yoro, Hideaki Koizumi

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Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 11, Issue 1, 014021 (January 2006). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2166632

Abstract

Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) can measure the product of the optical path length and the concentration change in oxygenated hemoglobin (ΔC′_oxy), deoxygenated hemoglobin (ΔC′_deoxy), and their sum (ΔC′_total) in the human cerebral cortex, and it has been used for noninvasive investigation of human brain functions. We evaluate the within-subject reproducibility of the NIRS signals by repeated measurement of the sensorimotor cortex in healthy adults taken over a period of about 6 months using near-infrared (NIR) topography. The maximum signal amplitudes and the location of activation centers are compared between two sessions for each subject. The signal amplitudes vary between sessions and no consistent tendency in the changes is found among subjects. However, the distance between the activation centers identified in two sessions is relatively small, within 20 mm on average across subjects, which is comparable to the smallest distance between measurement positions in the NIR topography (21 mm). Moreover, within-subject comparisons of signal time courses show high correlation coefficients (<0.8) between the two sessions. This result, demonstrating a high within-subject reproducibility of the temporal information in NIRS signals, particularly contributes to the development of a new application of NIRS.

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Hiroki Sato, Masashi Kiguchi, Atsushi Maki, Yutaka Fuchino, Akiko Obata, Takeshi Yoro, and Hideaki Koizumi "Within-subject reproducibility of near-infrared spectroscopy signals in sensorimotor activation after 6 months," Journal of Biomedical Optics 11(1), 014021 (1 January 2006). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.2166632

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