Everyone is invited!

BME seminar - Younes Rakhsani M.Sc.

Date: Thursday, May 8, 2014

Time: 4:00-5:00 PM

Location: E2-330 Engineering Building, Fort Gary Campus

Speaker: Younes Rakhsani M.Sc.

Title: functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) for Brain Imaging

Some refreshment will be provided for after the seminar.

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Abstract of the talk

Noninvasive measurements of blood volume and blood oxygenation changes in tissue is possible using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) with high temporal resolution. Diffuse optical imaging (DOI) is inexpensive and portable compared to other vascular imaging modalities such as MRI or positron emission tomography (PET). One of the advantages of the DOS systems is that they are portable, so it provides the ability to measure cerebral blood oxygenation, volume, or flow using portable instrumentation. DOS can be used for different types of bedside monitoring. Using multi-channel DOS and DOI systems, optical brain imaging can be applied to various psychology functional tests in adults, children, and more recently infants.

In this presentation I am going to talk about optical properties of the brain, basic types of NIRS systems, fNIRS signal processing and applications of NIRS. Also, I will talk about the CW-NIRS system that we have built in our lab and its results.

Short Bio of the speaker

Younes received his B.Sc., and first M.Sc. in Electrical engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology and Tehran University, respectively. Currently, he is enrolled in the M.Sc. BME program at U of Manitoba with focus on fNIRS design, implementation and evaluation.

/sent on behalf of

Chris Anderson

Chris M. Anderson,

President - Winnipeg Chapter Society for Neuroscience

Associate Professor and Director, Neuroscience Research Program

Kleysen Institute for Advanced Medicine

Health Sciences Centre and University of Manitoba

T: 204-318-2565

E: chris.anderson@med.umanitoba.ca