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Stanford psychologist’s brain scanned in MRI for 18 months,…

When I was a graduate student in Baylor College of Medicine I participated in an “exercise and brain” study in our lab as a subject, and got my brain scanned every week for about 10 weeks. I thought it was crazy; but apparently it’s
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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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Fisher transformation

Assume you are doing a correlation study between two brain areas, A and B. For each subject, you get a single value, the correlation between A and B. And you have 100 subjects. How do you know if the mean of the correlation is significantly different
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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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NIRS hyperscanning data analysis (1)

NIRS hyperscanning data analysis (1) NIRS hyperscanning data analysis (2) NIRS hyperscanning data analysis (3) NIRS hyperscanning data analysis (4) In this series I will introduce how we analyzed NIRS hyperscanning data. NIRS hyperscanning is a techn
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