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    • Neuroscience
    • Biophysics
    • Medical Imaging

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    • The human visual cortex responds to visual stimuli.
    • Non-invasive methods are crucial for studying brain activity.
    • Diffusing-wave spectroscopy (DWS) probes biological tissues using scattered light.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate the non-invasive probing of human visual cortex activity using multi-speckle DWS.
    • To assess stimulation-induced changes in the visual cortex using DWS.
    • To correlate DWS signals with physiological changes during visual stimulation.

    Main Methods:

    • Multi-speckle diffusing-wave spectroscopy (DWS) was employed.
    • Steady-state flickering at 8Hz was used to elicit visual cortex activity.
    • Data was collected using long-distance (30mm) and short-distance (16mm) probes over the occipital cortex in 9 healthy subjects.

    Main Results:

    • A faster decay of the field autocorrelation function was observed with the long-distance probe during 8Hz stimulation (p < 0.05).
    • No statistically significant changes were detected with the short-distance probe (p > 0.05).
    • The enhanced DWS dynamics correlated with increased blood volume in the visual cortex, independent of heart rate.

    Conclusions:

    • Multi-speckle DWS can non-invasively detect functional changes in the human visual cortex.
    • The observed DWS signal dynamics are sensitive to regional cerebral blood flow velocity.
    • Probe distance is critical for resolving stimulation-induced changes in visual cortex activity with DWS.