Brain and muscle oxygenation monitoring using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) during all-night sleep

Zhongxing Zhang; Ramin Khatami

doi:10.1117/12.1000152

25 March 2013 Brain and muscle oxygenation monitoring using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) during all-night sleep

Zhongxing Zhang, Ramin Khatami

Proceedings Volume 8578, Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy of Tissue X; 85782P (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.1000152
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2013, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

The hemodynamic changes during natural human sleep are still not well understood. NIRS is ideally suited for monitoring the hemodynamic changes during sleep due to the properties of local measurement, totally safe application and good tolerance to motion. Several studies have been conducted using NIRS in both normal subjects and patients with various sleep disorders during sleep to characterize the hemodynamic changing patterns during different sleep stages and during different symptoms such as obstructive apneas. Here we assessed brain and muscle oxygenation changes in 7 healthy adults during all-night sleep with combined polysomnography measurement to test the notion if hemodynamic changes in sleep are indeed brain specific. We found that muscle and brain showed similar hemodynamic changes during sleep initiation. A decrease in HbO₂ and tissue oxygenation index (TOI) while an increase in HHb was observed immediately after sleep onset, and an opposite trend was found after transition with progression to deeper slow-wave sleep (SWS) stage. Spontaneous low frequency oscillations (LFO) and very low frequency oscillations (VLFO) were smaller (Levene’s test, p<0.05) during SWS compared to light sleep (LS) and rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep in both brain and muscle. Spectral analysis of the NIRS signals measured from brain and muscle also showed reductions in VLFO and LFO powers during SWS with respect to LS and REM sleep. These results indicate a systemic attenuation rather than local cerebral reduction of spontaneous hemodynamic activity in SWS. A systemic physiological mechanism may exist to regulate the hemodynamic changes in brain and muscle during sleep.

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Zhongxing Zhang and Ramin Khatami "Brain and muscle oxygenation monitoring using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) during all-night sleep", Proc. SPIE 8578, Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy of Tissue X, 85782P (25 March 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.1000152

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