Quantitative measurements of cerebral blood flow with near-infrared spectroscopy.

We propose a new near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) method for quantitative measurements of cerebral blood flow (CBF). Because this method uses concepts of coherent hemodynamics spectroscopy (CHS), we identify this new method with the acronym NIRS-CHS. We tested this method on the prefrontal cortex of six healthy human subjects during mean arterial pressure (MAP) transients induced by the rapid deflation of pneumatic thigh cuffs. A comparison of CBF dynamics measured with NIRS-CHS and with diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) showed a good agreement for characteristic times of the CBF transient. We also report absolute measurements of baseline CBF with NIRS-CHS (69 ± 6 ml/100g/min over the six subjects). NIRS-CHS can provide more accurate measurements of CBF with respect to previously reported NIRS surrogates of CBF.

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