The Neurophotonics Special Section Celebrating 30 Years of Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy is published in Neurophotonics Volume 10, issues 1 and 2. The articles are collected here.

Special Guest Editorial: Thirty Years of Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy

David Highton, David Boas, Yasuyo Minagawa, Rickson C. Mesquita, and Judit Gervain

Neurodevelopment

Using functional near-infrared spectroscopy to study the early developing brain: future directions and new challenges

Judit Gervain, Yasuyo Minagawa, Lauren Emberson, and Sarah Lloyd-Fox

Reproducibility of infant fNIRS studies: a meta-analytic approach

Jessica Gemignani, Irene de la Cruz-Pavía, Anna Martinez, Caroline Nallet, Alessia Pasquini, Gaia Lucarini, Francesca Cavicchiolo, and Judit Gervain

Clinical Applications

Applications of near-infrared spectroscopy in neurocritical care

Rachel Thomas, Samuel S. Shin, and Ramani Balu

Functional near-infrared spectroscopy in pediatric clinical research: Different pathophysiologies and promising clinical applications

Anne Gallagher, Fabrice Wallois, and Hellmuth Obrig

Changes in functional neuroimaging measures as novices gain proficiency on the fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery suturing task

Yaoyu Fu, Pushpinder Walia, Steven D. Schwaitzberg, Xavier Intes, Suvranu De, Anirban Dutta, and Lora Cavuoto

Neurodegeneration and Psychiatric Applications

Illuminating neurodegeneration: a future perspective on near-infrared spectroscopy in dementia research

Sruthi Srinivasan, Emilia Butters, Liam Collins-Jones, Li Su, John O’Brien, and Gemma Bale

Current opinions on the present and future use of functional near-infrared spectroscopy in psychiatry

Rihui Li, Hadi Hosseini, Manish Saggar, Stephanie Christina Balters, and Allan L. Reiss

Psychedelics and fNIRS neuroimaging: exploring new opportunities

Felix Scholkmann and Franz Vollenweider

Wearable, High-Density, and Optical Imaging

Wearable, high-density fNIRS and diffuse optical tomography technologies: a perspective

Ernesto E. Vidal-Rosas, Alexander von Lühmann, Paola Pinti, and Robert J. Cooper

Brain space image reconstruction of functional near-infrared spectroscopy using a Bayesian adaptive fused sparse overlapping group lasso model

Xuetong Zhai, Hendrik Santosa, Robert T. Krafty, and Theodore J. Huppert

Speckle Contrast and Interferometric Techniques

Interferometric diffuse optics: recent advances and future outlook

Wenjun Zhou, Mingjun Zhao, and Vivek J. Srinivasan

Diffuse correlation spectroscopy: current status and future outlook

Stefan A. Carp, Mitchell B. Robinson, and Maria A. Franceschini

fNIRS Methods and Modeling

Introduction to the shared near infrared spectroscopy format

Stephen Tucker, Jay Dubb, Sreekanth Kura, Alexander von Lühmann, Robert Franke, Jörn M. Horschig, Samuel Powell, Robert Oostenveld, Michael Lührs, Édouard Delaire, Zahra Aghajan, Hanseok Yun, Meryem Yücel, Qianqian Fang, Theodore Huppert, Blaise deB. Frederick, Luca Pollonini, David Boas, and Robert Luke

Shedding light on functional near-infrared spectroscopy and open science practices

Caroline Kelsey, Jebediah Taylor, Laura Pirazzoli, Renata Di Lorenzo, Eileen F. Sullivan, and Charles A. Nelson

Performance comparison of systemic activity correction in functional near-infrared spectroscopy for methods with and without short distance channels

Franziska Klein, Michael Lührs, Amaia Benitez-Andonegui, Pauline Roehn, and Cornelia Kranczioch

Using preregistration as a tool for transparent fNIRS study design

Philipp A. Schroeder, Christina Artemenko, Jessica E. Kosie, Helena Cockx, Katharina Stute, João Pereira, Franziska Klein, and David M. A. Mehler

How much do time-domain functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) moments improve estimation of brain activity over traditional fNIRS?

Antonio Ortega-Martinez, De'Ja Rogers, Jessica Anderson, Parya Farzam, Yuanyuan Gao, Bernhard Zimmermann, Meryem Yücel, and David Boas

Revealing the spatiotemporal requirements for accurate subject identification with resting-state functional connectivity: a simultaneous fNIRS-fMRI study

Sergio Luiz Novi Junior, Alex De Castro Carvalho, Rodrigo Menezes Forti, Fernado Cendes, Clarissa Yasuda, and Rickson Mesquita

Dual-slope imaging of cerebral hemodynamics with frequency-domain near-infrared spectroscopy

Giles Blaney, Cristianne Fernandez, Angelo Sassaroli, and Sergio Fantini

Two-in-one system and behavior-specific brain synchrony during goal-free cooperative creation: an analytical approach combining automated behavioral classification and the event-related generalized linear model

Mingdi Xu, Satoshi Morimoto, Eiichi Hoshino, Kenji Suzuki, and Yasuyo Minagawa