Assessment of Cerebral Autoregulation in Extremely Low Gestational Age Newborns using Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy

• DOI: 10.1364/translational.2020.jtu3a.28
• Publication Date: 2020-05-19T18:43:46Z
• Authors: John Sunwoo; Vidhya Nair; Tina Steele; Natascha Lawrence; Alexander Zavriyev; Adriano Peruch; Zachary Starkweather; Kuan-Cheng Wu; Felipe Orihuela-E...; Terrie Inder; Maria Angela Fran...; Mohamed El-Dib
• Keywords: 0103 physical sciences; 01 natural sciences

We use diffuse correlation spectroscopy to safely quantify cerebral blood flow response to spontaneous fluctuations in autonomic and respiratory activities to help characterize the elevated risk of intraventricular hemorrhage in extremely premature newborns.