In Artinis NIRS blog, you will find the latest trends in (f)NIRS, NIRS studies and applications, tutor from the leaders of near infrared spectroscopy, not to mention detailed insights and tips and tricks for your research!

Beyond the Brain: Unveiling the Mind-Muscle Connection with Simultaneous NIRS
PortaLite, Brite, PortaMon, OxySoft, Sports science Sophie Apprich PortaLite, Brite, PortaMon, OxySoft, Sports science Sophie Apprich

Beyond the Brain: Unveiling the Mind-Muscle Connection with Simultaneous NIRS

NIRS can be applied on any tissue enabling to measure brain and muscle oxygenation simultaneously. Read this blogpost to learn more about application areas employing NIRS on muscle and brain at the same time, recently published literature and solutions Artinis offers to make this possible.

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Publication overview 2023: Using our (f)NIRS devices to measure in the brain
General, Brite, PortaLite, Multi modality Sophie Apprich General, Brite, PortaLite, Multi modality Sophie Apprich

Publication overview 2023: Using our (f)NIRS devices to measure in the brain

We are proud that in 2023 an increasing number of publications using our (f)NIRS devices to measure brain activity could be found. In this blogpost, we list application areas with papers released last year utilizing our devices. We also highlight and summarize interesting publications per application category.

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Measuring brain activity during playing a competitive checker game – a fNIRS hyperscanning mini study
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Measuring brain activity during playing a competitive checker game – a fNIRS hyperscanning mini study

In hyperscanning, brain activity and connectivity of multiple subjects are measured simultaneously during social interaction, for instance in competitive situations. fNIRS is often used as neuroimaging technology for hyperscanning in cognitive studies due to its portability and relative insensitivity to movement artifacts. In an internal mini-study, we tested the use of Brite Frontal to perform hyperscanning while participants played a competitive game of checker.

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Differences between haemodynamics of planned and spontaneous speech in people who stutter (PWS)
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Differences between haemodynamics of planned and spontaneous speech in people who stutter (PWS)

We have received a new update from Liam Barrett, one of the Win a Brite winners, whose research focus is on using biofeedback and fNIRS to promote fluency in people who stutter. In this blog post, he shares his findings on the hemodynamics differences in planned & spontaneous speech between fluent speakers and stuttering people.

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Exploring the infant brain with fNIRS
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Exploring the infant brain with fNIRS

Testing young babies, between 0 and 2 years of age, is definitely fun, but it also comes with challenges. We asked several developmental researchers to point out the main difficulties they typically encounter and what features an infant-friendly NIRS should have. So, what are these challenges and what can researchers and technology do to overcome them?

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fNIRS analysis toolbox series – Homer
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fNIRS analysis toolbox series – Homer

Here we present Homer3, an open-source MATLAB toolbox for analysis of fNIRS data and for creating maps of brain activation. In this blog post, we present the basic principle of Homer3 and show a simple example of how to read in data, preprocess the data (filtering only), average over trials as well as over subjects, and plot the final result in a graph.

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fNIRS analysis toolbox series – FieldTrip
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fNIRS analysis toolbox series – FieldTrip

Here we present FieldTrip, which is a MATLAB analysis toolbox that was originally designed for electrophysiological data analysis. However, FieldTrip supports fNIRS data analysis as well. It contains high-level functions that can be combined in a MATLAB script. It aims at researchers with a background in neuroscience, engineering, optics and physics.

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fNIRS analysis toolbox series – Brain AnalyzIR
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fNIRS analysis toolbox series – Brain AnalyzIR

Here we present the NIRS Brain AnalyzIR toolbox, a toolbox for analysis of (f)NIRS data in Matlab. NIRS Brain AnalyzIR toolbox aims at researchers with a background in neuroscience. The toolbox is suitable for researchers having basic knowledge of Matlab and especially those who are comfortable with object-oriented programming.

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