Deep and surface hemodynamic signal from functional time resolved transcranial near infrared spectroscopy compared to skin flowmotion

Federico Aletti, Rebecca Re, Vincenzo Pace, Davide Contini, Erika Molteni, Sergio Cerutti, Anna Maria Bianchi, Alessandro Torricelli, Lorenzo Spinelli, Rinaldo Cubeddu, Giuseppe Baselli

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Abstract

The potential disturbance in the prefrontal cortex hemodynamic signal measured by functional near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), due to forehead skin flowmotion, detected by laser Doppler flowmetry, was investigated by a standard protocol of hemodynamic challenge by Valsalva maneuver, aimed at assessing and disentangling local regulatory responses in skin vasomotion and in cerebral perfusion in presence of a strong systemic drive, and to quantify the common information in the two signals. The deep cortical NIRS signal did not appear to be affected by surface vasomotor activity, and autoregulation dynamics were dominant with respect to autonomic control of circulation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)282-9
Number of pages8
JournalComputers in Biology and Medicine
Volume42
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2012

Keywords

  • Cerebrovascular Circulation
  • Computer Simulation
  • Forehead/blood supply
  • Hemoglobins/analysis
  • Humans
  • Laser-Doppler Flowmetry/methods
  • Models, Cardiovascular
  • Phantoms, Imaging
  • Prefrontal Cortex/blood supply
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Skin/blood supply
  • Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared/methods
  • Valsalva Maneuver

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