(Brain Informatics and Health) 1st ed. 2020 Edition
by Vassiliy Tsytsarev (Editor), Vicky Yamamoto (Editor), Ning Zhong (Editor)
This book provides an essential overview of the broad range of
functional brain imaging techniques, as well as neuroscientific methods
suitable for various scientific tasks in fundamental and clinical
neuroscience. It also shares information on novel methods in
computational neuroscience, mathematical algorithms, image processing,
and applications to neuroscience.
The mammalian brain is a huge
and complex network that consists of billions of neural and glial cells.
Decoding how information is represented and processed by this neural
network requires the ability to monitor the dynamics of large numbers of
neurons at high temporal and spatial resolution over a large part of
the brain. Functional brain optical imaging has seen more than thirty
years of intensive development. Current light-using methods provide good
sensitivity to functional changes through intrinsic contrast and are
rapidly exploiting the growing availability of exogenous fluorescence
probes. In addition, various types of functional brain optical imaging
are now being used to reveal the brain’s microanatomy and physiology.
