During open brain surgery we acquire perfusion images non-invasively using laser Doppler imaging. The regions of brain activity show a distinct signal in response to stimulation providing intraoperative functional brain maps of remarkably strong contrast.
Title
See the Brain at Work—Intraoperative Laser Doppler Functional Brain Imaging
Published in
Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Techniques IV
Series
SPIE Proceedings, 7372
Pages
737212
Conference
ECBO 2009, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Techniques IV, Munich, Germany, June 14-18 2009
Date
2009
Record creation date
2009-10-27