fNIRS Tips, tutorials, code, examples

MatLab and Excel

I usually write MatLab scripts to parse the behavior data collected in a fMRI or NIRS experiment. It’s powerful and flexible. But as I have to do an Excel version recently, I found Excel has a great advantage — it’s easy to share wi
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Advantage and Disadvantage of NIRS over fMRI

Advantages cheaper portable (smaller) safe natural settings (e.g. real human interactions instead of computer presentation) high temporal resolution (10Hz) less sensitive to head motion clinically friendly less environment noise long time recording c
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NIRS data analysis (time series)

Also check out NIRS data analysis (GLM and visualization) Environment requirement MatLab SPM xTopo under xjView xjview is located in /fs/fmrihome/fMRItools/Xjview Add xjview to path by addpath(genpath('/fs/fmrihome/fMRItool
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NIRS data analysis (GLM and visualization)

Also check out NIRS data analysis (time series) Environment requirement MatLab SPM 5 or 8 xjView 8 xjview can be downloaded for free from https://www.alivelearn.net/xjview/ (If you are inside CIBSR, xjview  is located in /f
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batch script for NIRS-SPM

I wrote some batch scripts for NIRS-SPM. They, together with NIRS-SPM and xTopo, are called “super” package (I apparently run out of names). The “super” package are located in directory: /fs/quarry/cuixu/NIRS/super Please don&
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Analyze NIRS data with NIRS-SPM

being updated for v01_r14 … NIRS-SPM is a SPM5 and MATLAB-based software package for statistical analysis of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) signals, developed at the Bio Imaging Signal Processing (BISP) lab. at KAIST in Korea. prepare files
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Stanford NIRS lab

Check out Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) Lab I take charge of: http://spnl.stanford.edu/tools/nirsCIBSR/nirsHome.htm NIRS allows you to measure neural activities on the surface of the brain. Some labs use NIRS to do brain-computer interface, i.e.
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