Applied Microscopy (Jun 2021)

A brief review of non-invasive brain imaging technologies and the near-infrared optical bioimaging

  • Beomsue Kim,
  • Hongmin Kim,
  • Songhui Kim,
  • Young-ran Hwang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s42649-021-00058-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 51, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Abstract Brain disorders seriously affect life quality. Therefore, non-invasive neuroimaging has received attention to monitoring and early diagnosing neural disorders to prevent their progress to a severe level. This short review briefly describes the current MRI and PET/CT techniques developed for non-invasive neuroimaging and the future direction of optical imaging techniques to achieve higher resolution and specificity using the second near-infrared (NIR-II) region of wavelength with organic molecules.

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