Light experiment comparing NIRSport and Octamon

This is a guest post by Andrew Gundran and Paul Mazaika, both working with NIRS in Stanford University. They did an interesting experiment comparing the light power between NIRSport and Octamon. We ran experiments to compare the emission signal stren
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NIRS-fMRI concurrent experiement – it could be painful

Back in 2010 we ran a simultaneous fMRI-NIRS experiment (see publication here). At that time we borrowed a 10m long optical fibers from Hitachi (Thank them!). The participants had to wear a NIRS cap (with probes) while lying in a fMRI scanner. And th
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Hair color on NIRS data quality

It’s often said that dark hair is bad for NIRS experiment because it absorbs more light. I heard this on day one when I started using NIRS back in 2008. I never got a chance to do a systematic experiment to compare hair colors and their effect
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Number of publications of popular NIRS devices in 2015…

When you shop a new NIRS device, you want to compare all the different options in the market. One of the questions you may ask is: has anybody else been using the same device and how many? To this end, we compiled the number of publications citing so
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Stand-up Working

When working, I spend most of my time in front of a computer – writing emails, programming, data analysis, powerpoint, web browsing etc. For many years I always use one position in front of a computer – sitting, similar to this picture: S
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