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Overview

Ilias Tachtsidis is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with a significant focus on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Biomedical Engineering, and Cognitive Neuroscience. They also work in Pediatric and Perinatal health, as well as Biophysics.

Their main research topics include Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques, Non-Invasive Vital Sign Monitoring, Neonatal and Fetal Brain Pathology, Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging, and Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control.

Tachtsidis has contributed to numerous publications in several well-known scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include Neurophotonics, Biomedical Optics Express, Journal of Biomedical Optics, arXiv (Cornell University), and Scientific Reports.

Some of the recent papers associated with or linked to their work include:

  • Best practices for fNIRS publications, 2021, Neurophotonics
  • Optical imaging and spectroscopy for the study of the human brain: status report, 2022, Neurophotonics
  • Quantification of inter-brain coupling: A review of current methods used in haemodynamic and electrophysiological hyperscanning studies, 2023, NeuroImage
  • Systemic physiology augmented functional near-infrared spectroscopy: a powerful approach to study the embodied human brain, 2022, Neurophotonics
  • Cerebral Near Infrared Spectroscopy Monitoring in Term Infants With Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy-A Systematic Review, 2020, Frontiers in Neurology

Tachtsidis has collaborated frequently with various researchers in their field. Some of their frequent co-authors are Frédéric Lange, Paola Pinti, Antonia F. de C. Hamilton, Subhabrata Mitra, and Luca Giannoni.

Best Publications

  • The present and future use of functional near‐infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) for cognitive neuroscience

    Paola Pinti;Ilias Tachtsidis;Antonia Hamilton;Joy Hirsch

  • False positives and false negatives in functional near-infrared spectroscopy: issues, challenges, and the way forward

    Ilias Tachtsidis;Felix Scholkmann

  • The physiological origin of task-evoked systemic artefacts in functional near infrared spectroscopy

    Evgeniya Kirilina;Alexander Jelzow;Angela Heine;Michael Niessing

  • Best practices for fNIRS publications

    Meryem A. Yücel;Alexander v. Lühmann;Alexander v. Lühmann;Felix Scholkmann;Judit Gervain

  • Current Status and Issues Regarding Pre-processing of fNIRS Neuroimaging Data: An Investigation of Diverse Signal Filtering Methods Within a General Linear Model Framework.

    Paola Pinti;Felix Scholkmann;Antonia Hamilton;Paul Burgess

  • Long-Term Enhancement of Brain Function and Cognition Using Cognitive Training and Brain Stimulation

    Albert Snowball;Ilias Tachtsidis;Tudor Popescu;Jacqueline Thompson

  • A Review on the Use of Wearable Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in Naturalistic Environments

    Paola Pinti;Clarisse Aichelburg;Sam Gilbert;Antonia Hamilton

  • Using Fiberless, Wearable fNIRS to Monitor Brain Activity in Real-world Cognitive Tasks

    Paola Pinti;Clarisse Aichelburg;Frida Lind;Sarah Power

  • From Jöbsis to the present day: a review of clinical near-infrared spectroscopy measurements of cerebral cytochrome-c-oxidase

    Gemma Bale;Clare E. Elwell;Ilias Tachtsidis

  • Identifying and quantifying main components of physiological noise in functional near infrared spectroscopy on the prefrontal cortex

    Evgeniya Kirilina;Na Yu;Alexander Jelzow;Heidrun Wabnitz

  • Synchronization between arterial blood pressure and cerebral oxyhaemoglobin concentration investigated by wavelet cross-correlation

    A B Rowley;S J Payne;I Tachtsidis;M J Ebden

  • Investigation of cerebral haemodynamics by near-infrared spectroscopy in young healthy volunteers reveals posture-dependent spontaneous oscillations

    Ilias Tachtsidis;Clare E Elwell;Terence S Leung;Chuen-Wai Lee

  • Modelling confounding effects from extracerebral contamination and systemic factors on functional near-infrared spectroscopy.

    Matthew Caldwell;Felix Vishnu Scholkmann;Ursula Wolf;Martin Wolf

  • Increase in cerebral aerobic metabolism by normobaric hyperoxia after traumatic brain injury

    Martin M. Tisdall;Ilias Tachtsidis;Terence S. Leung;Clare E. Elwell

  • A new broadband near-infrared spectroscopy system for in-vivo measurements of cerebral cytochrome-c-oxidase changes in neonatal brain injury

    Gemma Bale;Subhabrata Mitra;Judith Meek;Nicola Robertson

  • Clinical Brain Monitoring with Time Domain NIRS: A Review and Future Perspectives

    Frédéric Lange;Ilias Tachtsidis

  • Brain mitochondrial oxidative metabolism during and after cerebral hypoxia–ischemia studied by simultaneous phosphorus magnetic-resonance and broadband near-infrared spectroscopy

    Alan Bainbridge;Ilias Tachtsidis;S. D. Faulkner;David Price

  • Cytochrome c oxidase response to changes in cerebral oxygen delivery in the adult brain shows higher brain-specificity than haemoglobin.

    Christina Kolyva;Arnab Ghosh;Ilias Tachtsidis;David Highton

  • A physiological model of cerebral blood flow control.

    Murad Banaji;Ilias Tachtsidis;David Delpy;Stephen Baigent

  • Estimating a modified Grubb's exponent in healthy human brains with near infrared spectroscopy and transcranial Doppler.

    Terence S Leung;Ilias Tachtsidis;Martin M Tisdall;Caroline Pritchard

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonia F. de C. Hamilton
Antonia F. de C. Hamilton University College London
Paul W. Burgess
Paul W. Burgess University College London
Joy Hirsch
Joy Hirsch Yale University
Sam J. Gilbert
Sam J. Gilbert University College London
David A. Boas
David A. Boas Boston University
Arthur M. Jacobs
Arthur M. Jacobs Freie Universität Berlin
Hasan Ayaz
Hasan Ayaz Drexel University
Glen Jeffery
Glen Jeffery University College London
Mark H. Johnson
Mark H. Johnson University of Cambridge
J. Helen Cross
J. Helen Cross Great Ormond Street Hospital

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