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fNIRS

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What is fNIRS? Among technologies measuring and visualizing (imaging) brain activity (brain function), fNIRS, which uses near-infrared light, is attracting attention as a method supporting brain-function research because it enables functional brain imaging under conditions close to natural environments. Exploiting its ability to measure brain function noninvasively and with few restraints, fNIRS is used in a broad range of research: basic research such as “functional brain mapping,” linking brain function and structure, as well as medical, rehabilitation, sports-medicine, psychology, education, and engineering research and industrial fields including automobiles and cosmetics. Another major feature is its compatibility with other measurement methods, enabling simultaneous measurement. fNIRS is also sometimes called near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), optical topography, or “optical topo.”

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