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Hyperscanning data

Below is sample hyperscanning data from one subject (myself). For detailed information please refer to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3254802 Name Email
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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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Comparison between NIRS and fMRI

I have a friend who has been using fMRI for more than 10 years and now a professor. He heard NIRS might be a good technology to measure human brain but knew little about it. So what is the difference between NIRS and fMRI? This is probably a common q
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MRI fiducial markers

In concurrent NIRS-MRI experiments, you often need to know exactly where the NIRS probes are in the MRI iamges. In this case, a fiducial marker becomes important. In our 2011 publication titled “A quantitative comparison of NIRS and fMRI across
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NIRS hyperscanning data analysis (4) coherence analysis

NIRS hyperscanning data analysis (1) NIRS hyperscanning data analysis (2) NIRS hyperscanning data analysis (3) NIRS hyperscanning data analysis (4) How do we analyze hyperscanning data to find out the relationship between two brains? Obviously correl
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Using the anti-correlation between oxy and deoxy hemoglobin for…

Back in 2009 we published a paper titled “Functional near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) signal improvement based on negative correlation between oxygenated and deoxygenated hemoglobin dynamics“. In a nutshell, we found the oxy- and deoxy-H
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