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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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Stork is my best research assistant

When I was a graduate student at Baylor College of Medicine, I found myself often in an embarrassing situation — I felt completely lost when my fellow graduate students heatedly discussed a paper in our field but I never heard of this publicati
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文献鸟Stork是我的科研好帮手

我在Baylor College of Medicine读研究生的时候经常遇到一种尴尬局面,就是同学们在热烈讨论本领域某篇文献的时候,我一脸茫然 — 因为我压根就不知道这篇文章。回头Pub
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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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NIRS hyperscanning data analysis (3) quality check

NIRS hyperscanning data analysis (1)NIRS hyperscanning data analysis (2)NIRS hyperscanning data analysis (3)NIRS hyperscanning data analysis (4) Data quality check 1. Behavior data To identify behavior abnormalities, we need to plot the behavior data
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NIRS hyperscanning data analysis (2)

NIRS hyperscanning data analysis (1) NIRS hyperscanning data analysis (2) NIRS hyperscanning data analysis (3) NIRS hyperscanning data analysis (4) Data collection We used Hitachi’s ETG 4000 to collect data. This device normally collects data f
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