title: Functional neuroimaging. Optical approaches.
abstract: Optical methods assess different types of light tissue interactions such as light absorption, fluorescence, phosphoresence, scattering, and Doppler shift. In this article, it is reviewed how these different types of light-tissue interactions can be measured and how these measurements can be related to brain function. Based on these considerations, a new classification scheme of functional optical methods is proposed.
authors.affiliation: Neurologische Klinik und Poliklinik, Medizinische Fakultät (Charité), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.
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authors.lastname: Villringer
mesh_terms: D000042:Absorption / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology* / Q000528:radiation effects; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000145:classification / Q000379:methods*; D004301:Doppler Effect; D005453:Fluorescence; D006801:Humans; D008027:Light; D055095:Optics and Photonics; D012542:Scattering, Radiation