Publications by authors named "Elisabetta M Frijia"
Neonates are a highly vulnerable population. The risk of brain injury is greater during the first days and weeks after birth than at any other time of life. Functional neuroimaging that can be performed longitudinally and at the cot-side has the potential to improve our understanding of the evolution of multiple forms of neurological injury over the perinatal period.
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- Traditional neuroimaging methods struggle to study the cortical function of awake infants, leading to the increased use of functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), which has notable limitations in resolution and ergonomics.
- Recent advancements in high-density diffuse optical tomography (HD-DOT) technology address many of these fNIRS limitations, allowing for better spatial resolution and specificity in imaging the infant brain.
- A study utilizing HD-DOT demonstrates its capability to produce high-quality functional images of infants' brains during social stimulus tasks, showing improved response consistency and tolerability in infants compared to previous low-density fNIRS methods.