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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Physiol Meas. 2017 Feb 15;38(4):R1–R26. doi: 10.1088/1361-6579/aa60b7

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

The principle of diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) for blood flow measurements in deep/thick tissues. (a) Source and detector fibers are placed on the tissue surface within a distance of r for light delivery and collection; (b) Light intensity I(t), detected by the APD, fluctuates with time due to the motions of RBCs; (c) Blood flow change can be quantified from the shift of temporal electric field autocorrelation function curves.