Research
Functional Optical Neuroimaging (fNIRS)
My main line of research is about optical neuroimaging; the functional Near InfraRed Spectroscopy (fNIRS). My interest in diffuse optical imaging ranges from developing the device and dealing with the image reconstruction until the data analysis and interpretation.
Mostly, in collaboration with Prof. Yang and Prof. Darzi group at Imperial College London, I have applied fNIRS to neuroergonomics; the observation of the brain at work. During my time at Imperial, I developed ICNNA a tool for fNIRS analysis with statistical, topological (manifold embedding) and graph theoretical capabilities.
Now, fNIRS is coming at the center of our research at the Biosignal Processing and Medical Computing Lab at INAOE.
Related projects
Other people involved
- Imperial College London
- Prof. Lord Ara W. Darzi of Denham
- Prof. Guang-Zhong Yang
- Dr. Daniel Leff
- Dr. Kunal Shetty
- Dr. Harsimrat Singh
- INAOE
- Dr. Carlos G. Treviño
- Dr. Luis Villaseñor Pineda
- Dr. Alejandro Antonio Torres García
- Mr. Javier Herrera Vega
- Mrs. Shender María Ávila Sansores
- Mr. Samuel Antonio Montero Hernández
- Mrs. Bibiana Cuervo Soto
- University College London
- Dr. Ilias Tachtsidis
- Previous collaborators
- Dr. Samuel Estala Arias (INAOE)
- Prof. Claire Elwell (University College London -UCL) - A little bit pretentious on my side... ;)
- Dr. Javier Andreu (Imperial College)
- Dr. Dave R. C. James (Imperial College)
- Dr. Giulia Paggetti (Technische Universität München (TUM))
- Dr. Gloria Menegaz (University of Verona)
Links of interest
Please do let me know of any other important links you think I may be missing, so I can include it.
- Labs
- Projects from other groups
- Bodies
- Journals
- Conferences
- Funding
- Companies and commercial devices
Labs
In no particular order. Please note that this is not a who's who; these are not pages from individual researchers, but lab pages. Feel free to send me an e-mail if you want some other lab website to be listed here.
- Europe
- Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory (BORL) at UCL (United Kingdom)
- Name dropping; D. Delpy, C. Elwell, M. Cope, S. Arridge, J. Hebden, J. Gibson, I. Tachtsidis, R. Cooper, G. Bale
- The Department of Neurology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (Germany)
- Name dropping; A. Villringer, H. Obrig
- Medical Optics Group at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (Spain)
- Name dropping; T. Durduran
- The Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory (BORL) at the Division of Neonatology, University Hospital Zurich (Switzerland).
- Name dropping; M. Wolf, F. Scholkmann
- Site in German!
- The functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) Laboratory at the Politecnico Milano (Italy).
- Name dropping; A. Torricelli, D. Contini
- Site in Italian -even the English version-!
- North America
- Photon Migration Laboratory at the Optics Division of the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Harvard University (USA).
- Name dropping; M.A. Franceschini, S. Carp
- Neurophotonics Center at Boston University (USA).
- Name dropping; D. Boas, Yucel
- Cognitive Neuroengineering and Quantitative Experimental Research Lab (CONQUER ColLabOrative) at Drexler University (USA)
- Name dropping; B. Onaral, M. Izzetoglu, K. Izzetoglu, H. Ayaz
- Neuroinformatics Research Group at Washington University in St. Louis (USA)
- Name dropping; J. Culver, A. Eggebrecht
- The NIRS Brain Imaging Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh (USA)
- Name dropping; T. Huppert
- Diffuse Optical Imaging of Tissue Lab at the Tufts University (USA)
- Name dropping; S. Fantini
- Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter at the University of Pennsylvania (USA)
- Name dropping; A. Yodh
- ...and of course us! The Biosignal Processing and Medical Computing Lab at the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE) (Mexico)
- Name dropping; C. Treviño-Palacios, J. Herrera-Vega
- Central and South America
- Biomedical Optics Lab at the University of Campinas (Brazil)
- Name dropping; R. Mesquita
- Asia
- Functional Brain Science Lab at the Jichi Medical University (Japan)
- Name dropping; I. Dan
- Page abandon?
Projects from other groups
- Global fNIRS from UCL (UK), Birbeck (UK) and MRC Unit (The Gambia). Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
- Baby-Lux from Politechnico Milano. Funded by the European Union.
- Aims at providing the first integrated DCS-TD-fNIRS instrument for monitoring cerebral oxygen metabolism and blood flow in preterm neonates.
- Metabolight from UCL. Funded by the Wellcome Trust.
- OpenNIRS.org from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
- Aims at providing hardware documentation and files for modular open Near InfraRed-Spectroscopy (NIRS) instrumentation.
Bodies
- Society for Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy
- NIRS software. A list of software tools for fNIRS analysis.
- NIRS/NIRI Newsletter. A great digest of mostly everything published about fNIRS by Felix Scholkmann. It is now continued but under restricted access inly for society members.
- International Council for Near Infrared Spectroscopy
- International Society on Oxygen Transport to Tissue (ISOTT)
- International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism (ISCBFM)
- Organization of the Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)
Journals
- Human Brain Mapping (IF (2014): 6.92)
- NeuroImage (IF (2014): 6.13)
- Physics in Medicine an Biology (PMB) (IF (2014): 2.92)
- Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (IF (2014): 2.9)
- Journal of Biomedical Optics (IF (2014): 2.75)
- Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy (IF (2014): 1.48)
- Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience (IF (2015): Coming soon)
- NeuroPhotonics (IF (2014): <5years)
Funding
Companies and commercial devices
In alphabetical order.