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Watching the brain at work

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It has been 20 years since near-infrared spectroscopy was first used to investigate human brain function. The technique has subsequently been extended to offer high-resolution imaging of the cortex and has now become a viable alternative to functional magnetic resonance imaging.

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Figure 1: High-density diffuse optical tomography.
Figure 2: An example of a group-level spatial comparison between DOT and fMRI images of the response to a language task.

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  1. Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering, Robert J. Cooper is a member of the Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK,

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