Relation between Brain Activity of fMRI and NIRS image at the Rehabilitation Training

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Recently, the number of stroke patient has been increasing in many countries including Japan according to aging of population. Besides the number of physical therapist (PT) has not increased despite of the aging of society and the absence of PT is one of the social problem. Therefore it is necessary that a PT treat with several stroke patients at the same time, but it is difficult problem for the PT. We think that one of the solutions of this problem is to use the some devices for rehabilitation, which device called "Pata-Koro" made by Biophilia institute. First, we study the efficacy at the rehabilitation, because those of those devices have been not studied. In this study the purpose is to measure the brain activity by fMRI and NIRS at the rehabilitation. Although the fMRI images are adequate for brain activity detection, the patients cannot use the devices at the measurement. Although the patients can use the devices at NIRS measurement, the NIRS image data is not efficient for the brain activity detection. We study the relation between fMRI image and NIRS image at the rehabilitation. In the next step we study the efficacy of devices will be studied with NIRS image at the rehabilitation.