Looking into the Brain with Light

January 29, 2008 | Source: Technology Review

An Israeli company called OrNim has developed a new noninvasive diagnostic “ultrasonic light tagging” technology that could give doctors the single most important sign of brain health: oxygen saturation.

Information on oxygenation in specific regions of the brain would be valuable to neurologists monitoring a brain-injured patient: it could be used to search for localized hematomas and give immediate notice of hemorrhagic strokes.