For decades, scientists have tried to peer deep inside the human brain using beams of harmless near-infrared light. The technique, called functional near-infrared spectroscopy, or fNIRS, has become a ...

In 1979, Hounsfield won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his role in the development of computer-assisted ...

The team successfully detected photons transmitted through an entire adult human head (15.5cm diameter) with an attenuation factor of ~10^18, detecting approximately one photon per second.

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Citation: Scientists detect light passing through entire human head, opening new doors for brain imaging (2025, June 13) ...

White’s research started small, and he conducted brain experiments on mice and dogs, before “perfecting” the head transplant surgery through his work on hundreds of monkeys.