| Literature DB >> 10808144 |
Y Hoshi1, I Oda, Y Wada, Y Ito, M Oda, K Ohta, Y Yamada.
Abstract
Our newly developed 64-channel time-resolved optical tomographic imaging system using near-infrared light enables us to obtain a quantitative image of hemoglobin concentration changes associated with neuronal activation in the human brain ¿H. Eda, I. Oda, Y. Ito, Y. Wada, Y. Oikawa, Y. Tsunazawa, M. Takada, Y. Tsuchiya, Y. Yamashita, M. Oda, A. Sassaroll, Y. Yamada, M. Tamura, Multi-channel time-resolved optical tomographic imaging system, Rev. Sci. Instrum., 70 (1999) 3595-3602. Here, we used this optical imaging system to demonstrate that the backward digit span (DB) task activated the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) of each hemisphere more than the forward digit span (DF) task in healthy adult volunteers, and higher performance of the DB task was closely related to the activation of the right DLPFC. These results suggest that visuospatial imagery is a useful strategy for the DB task. Optical tomography described here is a new modality of neuropsychological studies.Entities:
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Year: 2000 PMID： 10808144 DOI： 10.1016/s0926-6410(00)00006-9
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Brain Res Cogn Brain Res ISSN： 0926-6410