Near-infrared spectroscopy for medical applications: Current status and future perspectives

Akikazu Sakudo, Clinica Chimica Acta, Available online 12 February 2016, ISSN 0009-8981, doi:10.1016/j.cca.2016.02.009.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cytochrome c oxidase deficiency, metabolic myopathy, Friedreich's ataxia, mitochondrial myopathy as well as neuromuscular diseases and peripheral artery diseases (PAD) and spinal cord injury can be assessed by NIR spectroscopy to detect abnormal oxygen consumption and vasodilation.

 Near-infrared spectroscopy for medical applications: Current status and future perspectives