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ArticleNeurophotonics2017

Longitudinal, transcranial measurement of functional activation in the rat brain by diffuse correlation spectroscopy.

Igor Blanco, Peyman Zirak, Tanja Dragojević, Clara Castellvi, Turgut Durduran, Carles Justicia

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Article in Neurophotonics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Igor BlancoICFO-Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain.
Peyman ZirakICFO-Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain.
Tanja DragojevićICFO-Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain.
Clara CastellviInsitut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques de Barcelona (IIBB), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Department of Brain Ischemia and Neurodegeneration, Barcelona, Spain.
Turgut DurduranICFO-Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain.
Carles JusticiaInsitut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques de Barcelona (IIBB), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Department of Brain Ischemia and Neurodegeneration, Barcelona, Spain.
Institute of Photonic Sciences · ESInstitut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques de Barcelona · ESInstitute of Science and Technology

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neural activity is an important biomarker for the presence of neurodegenerative diseases, cerebrovascular alterations, and brain trauma; furthermore, it is a surrogate marker for treatment effects. These pathologies may occur and evolve in a long time-period, thus, noninvasive, transcutaneous techniques are necessary to allow a longitudinal follow-up. In the present work, we have customized noninvasive, transcutaneous, diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) to localize changes in cerebral blood flow (CBF) induced by neural activity. We were able to detect changes in CBF in the somatosensory cortex by using a model of electrical forepaw stimulation in rats. The suitability of DCS measurements for longitudinal monitoring was demonstrated by performing multiple sessions with the same animals at different ages (from 6 to 18 months). In addition, functional DCS has been cross-validated by comparison with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in the same animals in a subset of the time-points. The overall results obtained with transcutaneous DCS demonstrates that it can be utilized in longitudinal studies safely and reproducibly to locate changes in CBF induced by neural activity in the small animal brain.

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blood or tissue constituent monitoringfunctional monitoring and imagingspecklespectroscopy

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PMID29226175
PMCPMC5715584
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