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Luca Pollonini, PhD

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Dr. Pollonini earned his Ph.D. in Information Engineering from the University of Brescia, Italy in 2004. He holds a faculty appointment at the University of Houston, TX, and became a member of the Houston Methodist Research Institute in 2014. As a member of the Houston Methodist Department of Surgery, he conducts a research program focusing on optical imaging of tissue oxygenation.  Dr. Pollonini also serves as a panelist for the National Science Foundation and is a member of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society and the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE). He serves as the Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine.

Research interests

Dr. Pollonini's expertise is the design and development of biomedical sensors and instrumentation based on optical technologies. His primary research interest is in the quantitative assessment of the mechanisms of transport and utilization of oxygen at cardiovascular and muscular levels. Dr. Pollonini has been involved in the development of a suite of wearable sensors aimed to provide indicators of exercise thresholds through the analysis of systemic and local physiological measures, and in a NIRS-based imaging system to monitor oxygenation changes in human tissues.

Education/Academic qualification

Postdoctoral Fellowship, NASA Glenn Research Center

Information Engineering, PhD, University of Brescia

Electrical Engineering, MS, University of Brescia

Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

Free-text keywords

  • Near Infrared Spectroscopy
  • Biomedical Optics
  • Optical Imaging
  • Tissue Oxygenation

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  • Advancing pain assessment in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias: Functional near-infrared spectroscopy for investigating brain activity

    Park, J., Montero-Hernandez, S., Huff, A. J., Lee, C., Pollonini, L., Park, L., Lin, L., Telkes, I., Galvin, J. E., Hoang, J. & Ahn, H., Feb 1 2026, In: British Journal of Pain. 20, 1, p. 46-60 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Erratum: Publisher Correction: fNIRS reproducibility varies with data quality, analysis pipelines, and researcher experience (Communications biology (2025) 8 1 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-025-08412-1.)

    Yücel, M. A., Luke, R., Mesquita, R. C., von Lühmann, A., Mehler, D. M. A., Lührs, M., Gemignani, J., Abdalmalak, A., Albrecht, F., de Almeida Ivo, I., Artemenko, C., Ashton, K., Augustynowicz, P., Bajracharya, A., Bannier, E., Barth, B., Bayet, L., Behrendt, J., Khani, H. B. & Borot, L. & 89 others, Borrell, J. A., Brigadoi, S., Brink, K., Bulgarelli, C., Caruyer, E., Chen, H. C., Copeland, C., Corouge, I., Cutini, S., Di Lorenzo, R., Dresler, T., Eggebrecht, A. T., Ehlis, A. C., Erdoğan, S. B., Evenblij, D., Ferdous, T. R., Fracalossi, V., Franzén, E., Gallagher, A., Gerloff, C., Gervain, J., Goldhamer, N., Gossé, L. K., Guérin, S. M. R., Guevara, E., Hosseini, S. M. H., Innes-Brown, H., Int-Veen, I., Jaffe-Dax, S., Jégou, N., Kawaguchi, H., Kelsey, C., Kent, M., Kessler, R., Kherbawy, N., Klein, F., Kochavi, N., Kolisnyk, M., Koren, Y., Kroczek, A., Kvist, A., Lin, C. H. P., Löw, A., Luan, S., Mao, D., Martins, G. G., Middell, E., Montero-Hernandez, S., Mutlu, M. C., Novi, S. L., Paquette, N., Paranawithana, I., Parmet, Y., Peelle, J. E., Peng, K., Peng, T., Pereira, J., Pinti, P., Pollonini, L., Jounghani, A. R., Reindl, V., Ringels, W., Schopp, B., Schulte, A., Schulte-Rüther, M., Segel, A., Ala, T. S., Shader, M. J., Shavit, H., Sherafati, A., Soltanlou, M., Sorger, B., Speh, E., Stubbs, K. D., Stute, K., Sullivan, E. F., Tak, S., Tipado, Z., Tremblay, J., Vahidi, H., Van Eeckhoutte, M., Vannasing, P., Vergotte, G., Vincent, M. A., Weiss, E., Yang, D., Yükselen, G., Zapała, D. & Zemanek, V., Aug 21 2025, In: Communications Biology. 8, 1, p. 1256 1 p.

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  • fNIRS reproducibility varies with data quality, analysis pipelines, and researcher experience

    Yücel, M. A., Luke, R., Mesquita, R. C., von Lühmann, A., Mehler, D. M. A., Lührs, M., Gemignani, J., Abdalmalak, A., Albrecht, F., de Almeida Ivo, I., Artemenko, C., Ashton, K., Augustynowicz, P., Bajracharya, A., Bannier, E., Barth, B., Bayet, L., Behrendt, J., Khani, H. B. & Borot, L. & 89 others, Borrell, J. A., Brigadoi, S., Brink, K., Bulgarelli, C., Caruyer, E., Chen, H. C., Copeland, C., Corouge, I., Cutini, S., Di Lorenzo, R., Dresler, T., Eggebrecht, A. T., Ehlis, A. C., Erdoğan, S. B., Evenblij, D., Ferdous, T. R., Fracalossi, V., Franzén, E., Gallagher, A., Gerloff, C., Gervain, J., Goldhamer, N., Gossé, L. K., Guérin, S. M. R., Guevara, E., Hosseini, S. H., Innes-Brown, H., Int-Veen, I., Jaffe-Dax, S., Jégou, N., Kawaguchi, H., Kelsey, C., Kent, M., Kessler, R., Kherbawy, N., Klein, F., Kochavi, N., Kolisnyk, M., Koren, Y., Kroczek, A., Kvist, A., Lin, C. H. P., Löw, A., Luan, S., Mao, D., Martins, G. G., Middell, E., Montero-Hernandez, S., Mutlu, M. C., Novi, S. L., Paquette, N., Paranawithana, I., Parmet, Y., Peelle, J. E., Peng, K., Peng, T., Pereira, J., Pinti, P., Pollonini, L., Jounghani, A. R., Reindl, V., Ringels, W., Schopp, B., Schulte, A., Schulte-Rüther, M., Segel, A., Ala, T. S., Shader, M. J., Shavit, H., Sherafati, A., Soltanlou, M., Sorger, B., Speh, E., Stubbs, K. D., Stute, K., Sullivan, E. F., Tak, S., Tipado, Z., Tremblay, J., Vahidi, H., Van Eeckhoutte, M., Vannasing, P., Vergotte, G., Vincent, M. A., Weiss, E., Yang, D., Yükselen, G., Zapała, D. & Zemanek, V., Dec 2025, In: Communications Biology. 8, 1, 1149.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
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  • Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) detects brain changes for apathy and pain in patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias: An exploratory study

    Huff, A. J., Park, J., Montero-Hernandez, S., Park, L., Lee, C., Pollonini, L. & Ahn, H., Sep 2025, In: Neuroimage: Reports. 5, 3, p. 100266 100266.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

    Open Access
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  • NIRS-BIDS: Brain Imaging Data Structure Extended to Near-Infrared Spectroscopy

    The BIDS Maintainers, Jan 27 2025, In: Scientific Data. 12, 1, p. 159 159.

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