Continuous monitoring of [i]absolute[/i] cerebral blood flow by combining diffuse correlation spectroscopy and time-resolved near-infrared technology

Mamadou Diop; Ting-Yim Lee; Keith St. Lawrence

doi:10.1117/12.875953

17 February 2011 Continuous monitoring of absolute cerebral blood flow by combining diffuse correlation spectroscopy and time-resolved near-infrared technology

Mamadou Diop, Ting-Yim Lee, Keith St. Lawrence

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Proceedings Volume 7896, Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy of Tissue IX; 78960F (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.875953
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2011, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Continuous bedside monitoring of cerebral blood flow (CBF) in patients recovering from brain injury could improve the detection of impaired substrate delivery, which can exacerbate injury and worsen outcome. Diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) provides the ability to monitor perfusion changes continuously, but it is difficult to quantify absolute blood flow - leading to uncertainties as to whether or not CBF has fallen to ischemic levels. To continuously measure CBF, we propose to calibrate DCS data using a single time-point, time-resolved near-infrared (TR-NIR) technique for measuring absolute CBF. Experiments were conducted on newborn piglets in which CBF was increased by raising the arterial tension of CO₂ (40-62 mmHg) and decreased by carotid occlusion. For validation, values of CBF measured by TR-NIR were converted into blood flow changes and compared to CBF changes measured by DCS. A strong correlation between perfusion changes from the two techniques was revealed (slope = 0.98 and R² = 0.96), suggesting that a single time-point CBF measurement by TR-NIR can be used to convert continuous DCS data into units of CBF (ml/100g/min).

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Mamadou Diop, Ting-Yim Lee, and Keith St. Lawrence "Continuous monitoring of absolute cerebral blood flow by combining diffuse correlation spectroscopy and time-resolved near-infrared technology", Proc. SPIE 7896, Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy of Tissue IX, 78960F (17 February 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.875953

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Blood circulation

Cerebral blood flow

Spectroscopy

Calcium

Optical properties

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