Quantification of brain oxygenation in humans in vivo. Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies

摘要

The critical evaluation of the article by Dullenkopf et al. (1) in the comprehensive editorial by Goldstein (2) is much appreciated by those in the field of near-infrared (NIR) tissue Po_2 studies and, indeed, the criticism is justified; the NIRO-300 represents a class of NIR instruments that are incapable of separating the two main factors that control the progress of light through tissue, scattering, and absorption.