Characterizing dynamic cerebral vascular reactivity using a hybrid system combining time-resolved near-infrared and diffuse correlation spectroscopy
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study presents the characterization of dynamic cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) in healthy adults by a hybrid optical system combining time-resolved (TR) near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) and diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS). Blood flow and oxygenation (oxy- and deoxy-hemoglobin) responses to a step hypercapnic challenge were recorded to characterize dynamic and static components of CVR. Data were acquired at short and long source-detector separations (rSD) to assess the impact of scalp hemodynamics, and moment analysis applied to the TR-NIRS to further enhance the sensitivity to the brain. Comparing blood flow and oxygenation responses acquired at short and long rSD demonstrated that scalp contamination distorted the CVR time courses, particularly for oxyhemoglobin. This effect was significantly diminished by the greater depth sensitivity of TR NIRS and less evident in the DCS data due to the higher blood flow in the brain compared to the scalp. The reactivity speed was similar for blood flow and oxygenation in the healthy brain. Given the ease-of-use, portability, and non-invasiveness of this hybrid approach, it is well suited to investigate if the temporal relationship between CBF and oxygenation is altered by factors such as age and cerebrovascular disease.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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