Functional near-infrared spectroscopy in elderly patients with four types of dementia
Xi Mei, Chen-Jun Zou, Jun Hu, Xiao-Li Liu, Cheng-Ying Zheng, Dong-Sheng Zhou
Xi Mei, Xiao-Li Liu, Dong-Sheng Zhou, Key Lab, Ningbo Kangning Hospital, Ningbo 315201, Zhejiang Province, China
Chen-Jun Zou, Jun Hu, Cheng-Ying Zheng, Department of Geriatric, Ningbo Kangning Hospital, Ningbo 315201, Zhejiang Province, China
Author contributions: Mei X and Zou CJ performed fNIRS protocols, data collection, and wrote the manuscript; Mei X, Zou CJ, Liu XL, and Hu J performed data analysis; Zheng CY and Zhou DS proofread the manuscript; all authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Supported by the Ningbo Medical and Health Leading Academic Discipline Project, No. 2022-F28; Zhejiang Medical and Health Science and Technology Project, No. 2021KY1066; and Ningbo City Public Welfare Science and Technology Plan Project, No. 2022S025.
Institutional review board statement: This study was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of the Ningbo Kangning Hospital.
Informed consent statement: All subjects enrolled in the study signed the written consent and agreed to publish the details of their medical case and any accompanying images.
Conflict-of-interest statement: There are no conflicts of interest to report.
Data sharing statement: All data are included in the manuscript. However, the raw data used and/or analyzed in the present study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4. 0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See:
https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Corresponding author: Dong-Sheng Zhou, Research Assistant, Key Lab, Ningbo Kangning Hospital, No. 1 Zhuangyu South Road, Ningbo 315201, Zhejiang Province, China. wyzhouds@sina.com
Received: December 7, 2022
Peer-review started: December 7, 2022
First decision: February 20, 2023
Revised: March 2, 2023
Accepted: April 4, 2023
Article in press: April 4, 2023
Published online: May 19, 2023
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