fNIRS 2020 Educational Course
By Meryem Ayse Yucel. We are happy to announce that the registration for the Educational Course preceding the fNIRS 2020 Conference is now open! The two-day course will be held at Boston University’s Kilachand Center over the weekend of October 10-11, 2020.
fNIRS 2020 Updates
Mari Franceschini, October 2019, We have updated the conference webpage with the latest news. In brief: We are thrilled to confirm the participation of Dr. Bruce Tromberg as a Special Guest Speaker. Dr. Tromberg is the director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and […]
SfNIRS Newsletter October 2019
Welcome to the October 2019 issue of the SfNIRS newsletter. This newsletter covers the period since our last newsletter, which came out in June 2019. This period has seen activity in both hemispheres of the world, further progress in preparation for fNIRS2020, and the addition of affective computing to the ever-increasing number of applications.
The Society in the social networks: Highlights of activity between June and September 2019
This is an executive summary of some of the activity that has occurred in the past few months compiled from posts made to our Facebook group page and to Twitter.
fNIRS-UK 2019 wrap-up
By Hamid Dehghani. The fNIRS-UK 2019 meeting took place on 26-27th September 2019 with just over 100 attendees, including 14 Oral presentations and 37 total poster presentations.
NIRStralia 2019 wrap-up
By David Highton and Roger Meder We were delighted to host an fNIRS symposium (NIRStralia www.nirstralia.com) at the recent NIR2019 conference (www.nir2019.com) in the Gold Coast Australia. The International Council for Near Infrared Spectroscopy NIR2019 conference covers wide ranging applications of NIRS techniques from agriculture to satellite imagery and the development of related hardware.
SfNIRS Newsletter June 2019
Welcome to the June 2019 issue of the SfNIRS newsletter. This newsletter covers the period since our last newsletter, which came out in March 2019. The amount of news that our community has generated in this period is hard to fit into our newsletter. Here is our best effort at summarizing it all. We hope […]
Preparations for fNIRS 2020
By Maria Angela Franceschini. We are making great progress with the fNIRS202 conference. Pepe and I are sending out invitations for the program committee and we have our keynote speaker. We are thrilled that Professor Richard Aslin has accepted our invitation and are looking forward to an outstanding keynote from him!
Unsupervised analysis of fNIRS in the world
By Meryem Yücel. As fNIRS progresses into more natural environments, new challenges in the acquisition and analysis of its signals emerge. A new blind source separation framework, recently published in NeuroImage, aims to provide some remedies.
Chasing (late) photons in the brain: classic and null distance approaches to time domain fNIRS
By Alessandro Torricelli – Politecnico di Milano – Dipartimento di Fisica, Milan (Italy) Can you imagine fNIRS in a smartphone? With existing steady state or continuous wave (CW) fNIRS technologies this could be just science fiction since miniaturization of a setup is not enough. If we want NIR light to reach brain cortex, at an […]