Following the success of our 2010 meeting at Harvard, we have now started to take steps to further strengthen our community. We have started our web site at fnirs.org which we will grow to provide information about instruments, probes, analysis software, and related meetings and publications, as well as any additional and appropriate information that the community can contribute.
2012 Meeting
| Also, we are pleased to announce that the second meeting has been scheduled for London, October 26-28, 2012, and will be organized by Clare Elwell. More information can be found on the fNIRS conference web page. Please note there will also be an educational course on NIRS the two days before the conference. To subscribe to the fNIRS conference mailing list, simply send an email to this address. |  |
fNIRS News
(Please contact us with any additions or changes)
April 27, 2012 - Registration for the fNIRS 2012 meeting is now open. Visit the registration page here.
April 13, 2012 - Submission instructions for the fNIRS 2012 meeting have been posted. Visit the Abstract Submission page of the meeting website for further information.
April 13, 2012 - A two-day educational NIRS Course will precede the fNIRS conference. The focus of this workshop will be twofold. Firstly, it will include an overview of the NIRS technique, with particular focus on the application of this technique for infancy research (to include practical demonstrations). Secondly, there will be a series of lectures on data analysis techniques given by invited speakers. The latter will include topics such as GLM modeling, image reconstruction, artifact detection, and probe localization and anatomy.
The course will be at Birkbeck, University of London, and is being organized by Sarah Lloyd-Fox and Richard Henning Brodersen.
Space will be limited, so be sure to register soon. Registration information be announced in the newsletter.
April 12, 2012 - The current special issue of JNIRS - Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy offers essential reading about the use of NIRS in the medical arena. Further details are here.
March 16, 2012 - Neuroimage is planning a special issue to celebrate 20 years of functional near-infrared spectroscopy. Submitted papers are due by January 1, 2013. More details can be found here.
December 1, 2011 - The Nov. 28, 2011, issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A documents a November 2010 Royal Society Discussion Meeting covering the state of the art in the field of biomedical optics as well as the vision and challenges for the future, and furthermore includes contributions from invited speakers and attendees of the meeting. Compiled and edited by Clare Elwell, Christina Kolyva, Paul Beard, Chris Cooper, Jeremy Hebden and Elizabeth Hillman, the issue is currently free to access.