Title :
Cortical activities during a stand to sit movement using fNIRS
Author :
Seung Hyun Lee ; Gwanghee Jang ; Sang Hyeon Jin ; Ji Ho Park ; Yoo Jung Lee ; Jong Min Lee ; Seung-Jong Kim ; Jinung An
Author_Institution :
Robot. Res. Div., DGIST, Daegu, South Korea
Abstract :
Recently, a functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is frequently reported optical brain imaging method from the standpoint of clinical feasibility. This paper was aimed at examining whether fNIRS can be an appropriate brain imaging modality for checking the progress of rehabilitation treatments or not. Two healthy adults performed the given task. Stand to sit task was offered in this study. The results showed that stand to sit movement commonly activated the medial primary motor cortex and primary sensory motor cortex. A fNIRS accurately pointed the brain activity coincided with neurophysiological evidences which were commonly accepted. The results from this study we saw the possibility of the utilizing NIRS into the field of rehabilitation medicine and may contribute to better understanding how motor executions can be expressed into cortical activations.
Keywords :
biomedical optical imaging; brain; gait analysis; infrared spectra; neurophysiology; patient rehabilitation; brain activity; cortical activations; fNIRS; functional near-infrared spectroscopy; medial primary motor cortex; neurophysiology; optical brain imaging; patient rehabilitation treatments; primary sensory motor cortex; rehabilitation medicine; sit movement; stand movement; Brain; Magnetic resonance imaging; Three-dimensional displays; Biological and Physiological Engineering; Rehabilitation; Signal and/or Image Processing; fNIRS;
Conference_Titel :
Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), 2014 14th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seoul
Print_ISBN :
978-8-9932-1506-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICCAS.2014.6988002