Real-Time Monitoring of Neurocritical Patients with Diffuse Optical SpectroscopiesRodrigo Menezes Forti 1,2, Marilise Katsurayama 2,3, Giovani Grisotti Martins 1, Lenise Valler 2,3, Andrés Quiroga 1,2, Luiz Simioni 1, Julien Menko 4, Antonio L. E. Falcão 3, Li Min Li 2,5, Rickson C. Mesquita 1,2
1Institute of Physics, University of Campinas, 2Brazilian Institute of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology, 3Clinical Hospital, University of Campinas, 4Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 5School of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas
Presented here is a protocol for non-invasively monitoring cerebral hemodynamics of neurocritical patients in real-time and at the bedside using diffuse optics. Specifically, the proposed protocol uses a hybrid diffuse optical systems to detect and display real-time information on cerebral oxygenation, cerebral blood flow and cerebral metabolism.
