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Table can be found here:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmI1wIXzRozHdFQzWHNQajI5eTlOeWRFd0tCT0hwYmc&hl=en_US
Artinis
OctaMon
The main advantage is that it’s portable.
PortaMon
Advantages
- with offline storage you can now monitor muscles in almost any outdoor or indoor situation
- being so light weighted and practical it has quickly become popular among our customers, and has even been shown as innovation on TV
- never underestimate its size, it has high signal to noise ratio and sample rate enabling you to see clear signals and eg. pulsatility
- beyond O2Hb, HHb and tHb information, (with SRS technique) you get an absolute tissue saturation index (TSI%)
- easy to attach, get started and run the device – all in only a few minutes and without any fibers or cables
Oxymon
Advantages
- always possible to re-arrange or upgrade your setup and channels towards an application (up to 48 channels)
- stable, robust and reliable, it has many years of experience in different environments all over the world
- can be combined and synchronized with other possible equipment via various analog input and outputs
- measure different tissue depths or any brain tissue area with powerful sensitive signals, up to 250 samples per second
PortaLite
Advantages
- Small
- Portable
Biopac
fNIR300
Sample publication
(unknown)
Users
- U Penn
Link
http://www.biopac.com/fnir-brain-imaging-stimulus-presentation
Hamamatsu
NIRO
Sample publication
Link
http://sales.hamamatsu.com/en/products/system-division/biomedical_Research.php
Hitachi Medical
ETG4000
Sample publication
Users
- Stanford CIBSR
- Beijing Normal University
Link
http://www.hitachi-medical.co.jp/english/products/opt/etg4000/index.html
Comment
Hiachi’s price is much higher than other manufactures. The system is packaged pretty nice. We purchased the system in 2008 with 3-yr warranty. The system worked nicely for 3 years and a few months. A few months back there was a problem with the system (the attached computer) and Hitachi was able to fix it. Warranty can be expensive.
ISS
Imagent
Sample publication
Users
- Florida International University
- Tufts (breast, brain)
- McLean hospital (brain)
- UT Arlington (breast, brain)
- UC Irvine (breast)
Link
http://iss.com/biomedical/instruments/imagent.html
NIRx
NIRScout
Sample publication
Users
- University of Stellenbosch
Link
http://nirx.net/nirscout/
NIRSport
Sample publication
Users
- Stanford University
Link
http://nirx.net/nirsport/
Obelab
NIRSIT
Sample publication
Not yet
Users
- not yet
Link
http://www.obelab.com/
The product is not yet released as of 2016-04
Omron
HEO200
Sample publication
Users
- University of Tokushima
Link
None. It’s really hard to find a webpage of this product.
Shimadzu
LABNIRS
Sample publication
Users
- Osaka University
Link
http://www.shimadzu.com/an/lifescience/imaging/nirs/nirs_top.html
Comment
I visited Shimadzu’s booth in HBM meeting in San Francisco in 2009. Their NIRS machine is quite similar to Hitachi’s. The price, according to the salesman, is ~300K USD (not sure how much now).
TechEn
NIRSOptix CW6
Sample publication
Users
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- MGH (brain, breast)
- UT Arlington
- Univ of Pittsburgh
Link
Nice overview! I suggest to add a column about the technique employed, i.e. cw, frequency domain, time domain, spatial light modulation.
Thanks, very informative post! We have BIOPACK NIRS system but its sampling rate is too low (2Hz). Therefore, we are limited to do any practical research. :))
@Berdakh
Thank you for the info. I did not know biopac’s sampling frequency is 2hz. But it’s much better than 0.5Hz as in fMRI, right?
Yes,it is better than fMRI in terms of its sampling rate. What we wanted it is to try it for online BCI ,however it is almost impossible. Probably, we will get another fNIRs FOIRE 3000 system Shimadzu with 16 Hz sampling rate (http://www.shimadzu.com/an/nirs/foire.html). I was told that the system hasn’t been exported to USA yet, but about ten FOIRE 3000 is being used in Japan and one in Vietnam.
P.S. We are new in this exciting fNIRS research.
Regards.
Hamamatsu constructed a time-domain device. But it has not been sold outside Japan, as far as I know. Might have changed inbetween.
The device is called TRS-20.
http://jp.hamamatsu.com/products/life-science/1002/TRS-20/index_en.html
Thank you for your attempt. Do you know the price of “ETG4000”?
@Nadia
up to 500K USD including accessories.
Are you sure? The price is 500,000 US $ ???!!!
Yes at least to us. You may want to contact their sales people for accurate price.
Thank you.
We want to use NIRS systems for brain activity. What is your suggestion, with a trade off between accuracy and price?
@Nadia
As I only used ETG4000, I am not sure how other systems work …
Thanks.
@Xu Cui
do you know the price range of Oxymon?
@Evan Chen
I don’t know, Evan.
@Evan Chen
Hi Evan,
NIRx has some very new fNIRS systems if you still might be looking? Get in touch if you are interested in more info: http://www.nirx.net. If you are not interested, no worries.
-Thomas
@Evan Chen
Contact me via askforinfo[at]artinis.com and I can tell you about the Oxymon.
Marco