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Neuroscience Letters

Volume 299, Issue 3, 23 February 2001, Pages 221-224
Neuroscience Letters

Functional imaging of the brain in sedated newborn infants using near infrared topography during passive knee movement

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Abstract

Near infrared topography was used for functional imaging of the sensorimotor cortex of newborn infants during passive knee movement under sedated sleep. Contralateral knee movement caused a marked increase in oxyhemoglobin and total hemoglobin from the baseline values at almost all locations in the primary sensorimotor area of all neonates and a decrease in local deoxyhemoglobin in six of seven neonates. During ipsilateral knee movement, oxyhemoglobin and total hemoglobin showed slighter changes at a few locations, equal to 30% (mean) and 29% (mean) of the changes that occurred with contralateral stimulation, respectively. The mean times corresponding to maximal changes were 11.9 s for oxyhemoglobin and 19.1 s for deoxyhemoglobin, demonstrating that oxyhemoglobin has a much faster response than does deoxyhemoglobin.

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