Abstract
Multispeckle diffusing-wave spectroscopy (DWS) is used to measure blood flow transients in the human visual cortex following stimulation by full-field and checkerboard flickering. The average decay time characterizing the decay of the DWS autocorrelation function shows a biphasic behavior; within about after stimulation onset, increases rapidly to about 6% above the baseline value. At later times, slowly decreases and reaches a steady-state value about 5% below the baseline value after about . The initial increase of the DWS signal suggests a transient reduction of the cortical blood flow velocity shortly after stimulation onset. Measurements of this transient response at different positions over the primary visual cortex show a spatial pattern different from the one measured by electroencephalography.
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