Use of Speckle contrast optical spectroscopy (SCOS) to monitor changes in brain blood flow and volume during breath-holding.

 

Equations:

The brain blood volume is extracted from the camera images by calculating the ratio of the mean time-varying intensity ⟨I(t)⟩ over the baseline intensity, cerebral blood volume index CBVI


The brain blood flow is extracted from the camera images by calculating the cerebral blood flow index (CBFI)

K 2 adjusted is the adjusted speckle contrast (which indicates information about the particle motion, i.e. blood flow velocity in a region) obtained by subtracting the raw speckle contrast K 2 raw by all sources of noise.

a breath-holding index


Method:

  • When coherent laser light from a laser diode is directed onto a tissue (e.g., the brain), the light scatters as it passes through the tissue.

  • The properties of the speckle pattern (a grainy image that appears when a laser illuminates biological tissue) depend on the movement of particles within the tissue, blood cells.The faster the blood flow, the quicker the speckle pattern fluctuates.

  • where there is no blood flow, the speckle pattern remains relatively constant. 

  • By analyzing the rate at which the speckle pattern changes, SCOS measures the relative speed of blood flow in the tissue. The higher-risk group exhibited a greater increase in brain blood volume. 

  • Blood flow signal is recorded as a function of time. Here the heart rate is extracted from the blood flow via Fourier transform.

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