Optical Coherence Tomography: Basic Concepts and Applications in Neuroscience Research

<table class="table-group" id="tab3"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Techniques</td><td class="align_left">Limitations</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Microelectrode technologies</td><td class="align_left">Vulnerable to environmental electrical noises and artifacts caused by electrical stimulation and neural recording and unable to reliably record chronic neural activity in most cases</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">EEG, MEG, thermal Imaging</td><td class="align_left">Limited spatial resolution and/or temporal resolution</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">PET, fMRI, diffuse optical tomography (DOT)</td><td class="align_left">Low temporal resolution, huge size, and expensive</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Disadvantages of some current neural recording techniques.

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