Behaviour of near-infrared light in the adult human head: implications for clinical near-infrared spectroscopy
| Autor: | N. J. Barnett, Tim Germon, A.R. Manara, Richard J. Nelson, Amber Young |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Light Dura mater Radiation Neurosurgical Procedures Monitoring Intraoperative Medicine Humans Scattering Radiation Spectroscopy Aged Spectroscopy Near-Infrared Human head business.industry Attenuation Near-infrared spectroscopy Brain Middle Aged Intensity (physics) Light intensity Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine medicine.anatomical_structure Female business Head Biomedical engineering |
| Zdroj: | British journal of anaesthesia. 84(1) |
| ISSN: | 0007-0912 |
| Popis: | To test theoretical assumptions supporting the use of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) in clinical practice, we examined the behaviour of NIR light transmission and attenuation in the human head. Sterile probes for emitting and detecting NIR light at a fixed separation of 40 mm were placed in turn on intact skin, skull, dura and cerebral cortex of 10 patients undergoing elective neurosurgery. In the first five patients, the detecting probe was moved through successive extracerebral layers with the emitter on the skin surface. In the second five patients, the process was reversed, with the emitting probe moved and the detector in the same place on the scalp. NIR intensity was measured at each tissue interface and compared with the intensity measured at the skin surface with all layers intact. Removal of bone and dura from the light path caused a significant reduction in detected intensity. The largest mean reduction in light intensity was a 14-fold decrease with removal of bone (unadjusted P0.0001; paired t test). The assumptions that extracerebral tissues contribute little to attenuation of NIR light in the adult head and that most of this attenuation occurs superficially in the scalp are drawn into question by this study. We postulate that the skull and/or its interface with other layers may act as an optical 'channel', distorting the behaviour of NIR light in the human head. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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