title: Living Brain Optical Imaging: Technology, Methods and Applications.
abstract: Within the last few decades, optical imaging methods have yielded revolutionary results when applied to all parts of the central nervous system. The purpose of this review is to analyze research possibilities and limitations of several novel imaging techniques and show some of the most interesting achievements obtained by these methods. Here we covered intrinsic optical imaging, voltage-sensitive dye, photoacoustic, optical coherence tomography, near-infrared spectroscopy and some other techniques. All of them are mainly applicable for experimental neuroscience but some of them also suitable for the clinical studies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, HSF II Room S251, 20 Penn Street, Baltimore, MD 21201-1075, USA.
authors.forename: Vassiliy
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Tsytsarev
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, HSF II Room S251, 20 Penn Street, Baltimore, MD 21201-1075, USA.
authors.forename: Chad
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bernardelli
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA.
authors.forename: Konstantin I
authors.initials: KI
authors.lastname: Maslov
keywords: Autofluorescence; Brain Imaging; Diffuse Optical Tomography; Imaging; Metabolic – Related Optical; Near-Infrared Spectroscopy; Optical Coherence Tomography Optical Imaging of Intrinsic Signal; Optical Imaging; Photoacoustic; T-Herz; Voltage-Sensitive Dye