期刊
NEUROIMAGE
卷 225, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117490
关键词
High-Density Diffuse Optical Tomography; Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy; Optical Neuroimaging; Infant Cognitive Development; Infant Neuroimaging
资金
- EPSRC Fellowship [EP/N025946/1]
- UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship
- EPSRC [EP/N025946/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- UKRI [MR/S018425/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Studying cortical function in awake infants using traditional neuroimaging approaches is challenging. However, functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) has become more common in developmental neuroscience. A new generation of wearable, modular, high-density diffuse optical tomography (HD-DOT) technologies has improved spatial resolution and specificity for infant brain imaging. By combining this technology with advances in cap design and spatial registration, high-quality functional images of the infant brain can now be obtained with minimal constraints.
Studies of cortical function in the awake infant are extremely challenging to undertake with traditional neuroimaging approaches. Partly in response to this challenge, functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) has become increasingly common in developmental neuroscience, but has significant limitations including resolution, spatial specificity and ergonomics. In adults, high-density arrays of near-infrared sources and detectors have recently been shown to yield dramatic improvements in spatial resolution and specificity when compared to typical fNIRS approaches. However, most existing fNIRS devices only permit the acquisition of similar to 20-100 sparsely distributed fNIRS channels, and increasing the number of optodes presents significant mechanical challenges, particularly for infant applications. A new generation of wearable, modular, high-density diffuse optical tomography (HD-DOT) technologies has recently emerged that overcomes many of the limitations of traditional, fibre-based and low-density fNIRS measurements. Driven by the development of this new technology, we have undertaken the first study of the infant brain using wearable HD-DOT. Using a well-established social stimulus paradigm, and combining this new imaging technology with advances in cap design and spatial registration, we show that it is now possible to obtain high-quality, functional images of the infant brain with minimal constraints on either the environment or on the infant participants. Our results are consistent with prior low-density fNIRS measures based on similar paradigms, but demonstrate superior spatial localization, improved depth specificity, higher SNR and a dramatic improvement in the consistency of the responses across participants. Our data retention rates also demonstrate that this new generation of wearable technology is well tolerated by the infant population.
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