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Photon transport through the entire adult human head

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Pith's one-line read Near-infrared photons can be detected after crossing the full 15.5 cm width of an adult human head, at roughly one photon per second, despite an attenuation of about 10^18—challenging the long-held view that such detection is impossible.

desk verdict A plausible, potentially important result that is under-supported: the single-subject TCSPC detection lacks the controls needed to rule out light bypassing the head, so the 'diametric transmission' claim is not yet established. read the letter →

arxiv 2412.01360 v2 pith:EGRMLTMR submitted 2024-12-02 physics.optics

Jack Radford , Vytautas Gradauskas , Kevin J. Mitchell , Samuel Nerenberg , Ilya Starshynov , Daniele Faccio This is my paper · ORCID
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keywords time-correlatedsinglephotoncountingdiffuseopticaltomographynear-infraredspectroscopycerebrospinalfluidlightguidingtransportinhumanheaddeepbrainsensingMonteCarlosimulation
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The reading

The paper tries to establish that near-infrared light can be transmitted diametrically through the entire adult human head—across the widest 15.5 cm of the skull—even though attenuation is on the order of $10^{18}$. If true, this overturns the common assumption that optical sensing cannot reach deep brain structures in adults and suggests that a well-chosen source and detector, together with time-correlated single-photon counting, can recover roughly one photon per second from a 1.2 W laser. The authors support the claim with large-scale numerical simulations that predict where photons migrate inside the head, and with time-of-flight measurements on an adult subject whose detected distribution matches simulation in its peak delay and width. They further argue that cerebrospinal fluid acts as a low-loss guide, steering photons along preferred routes over and under the brain, so that source placement can select which deep regions are interrogated.

What carries the argument

The mechanism that carries the claim is light guiding by low-scattering cerebrospinal fluid layers, which sit between the higher-scattering skull and grey matter and act as channels of least extinction through the head. On the experimental side, the load-bearing instrument is a time-correlated single-photon counting chain: a high-power pulsed laser expanded over a large skin-safe area, a demagnifying fiber taper that increases collection etendue, and a photomultiplier with low dark count and sub-nanosecond timing jitter. This chain lets the roughly one-photon-per-second signal be time-tagged against the laser repetition rate, separating genuine transmitted photons from background and enabling comparison with simulated time-of-flight distributions.

What would settle it

Run the identical time-tagged acquisition with an opaque sheet shadowing the entire scalp and air path between the source and detector, or with the subject replaced by an absorbing phantom that leaves the geometry unchanged; if a coincidence peak at the simulated transit delay persists, through-head transmission is not the only source of the detected counts.

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Core claim

The paper's central claim is that diametric photon transmission through an adult head is experimentally measurable: an 800 nm pulsed laser expanded to a 25 mm spot, a large-area fiber taper feeding a low-dark-count photomultiplier, and time-correlated single-photon counting yield a detected flux of about one photon per second, corresponding to an attenuation of about $10^{18}$. The measured time-of-flight distribution overlaps the simulated distribution for the first two moments, which the authors take as evidence that the detected photons followed head-crossing migration pathways rather than an external route. Monte Carlo analysis of individual photon trajectories shows that low-scattering cerebrospinal fluid channels guide light around and beneath the cerebrum, creating reproducible sensitivity volumes that, at extreme source–detector separation, extend into the midbrain, sulci, and deep cerebellum. The authors conclude that with careful source–detector geometry and time-of-flight gating, these guided pathways could be used to probe deep brain regions currently outside the reach of functional near-infrared spectroscopy.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that the counted photons really traversed the head, rather than reaching the detector by travelling around the scalp and hair or through an air gap, and that the coincidence peak is not an electronic or optical crosstalk artefact; the paper reports no control run with the source blocked, an opaque barrier inserted, or the subject removed.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Time-domain diffuse optical tomography could be extended to source–detector separations far beyond the usual few centimetres, reaching the midbrain, sulci, and deep cerebellum.
  • Source placement becomes a control knob: lowering the source by 40 mm shifts sensitivity almost exclusively to regions beneath the cerebrum, which could be used to target specific deep structures.
  • Cerebrospinal-fluid-guided light, normally treated as a nuisance in fNIRS, can instead be exploited to localise absorption changes in deep brain regions.
  • The hardware recipe—large-area illumination and collection plus single-photon time tagging—provides a template for future deep-brain optical sensing devices.
  • The first two moments of the simulated and measured time-of-flight distributions agree, suggesting that transit time itself can be used as a filter to select photons that interacted with deep tissue.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the guidance mechanism is as robust as the paper suggests, multi-source and multi-detector time-of-flight data could be inverted into tomographic reconstructions of deep brain activity without relying on fMRI-based correlation.
  • Because the detected flux is roughly one photon per second, detectors with higher quantum efficiency or arrays of detectors could increase the count rate enough to make deep-brain functional monitoring practical in a clinical setting.
  • A decisive next test, not reported here, would be to demonstrate that the through-head coincidence peak disappears when an opaque barrier blocks the scalp path; this would rule out the main alternative explanation for the counts.
  • The strong dependence of guided paths on cerebrospinal fluid geometry implies that posture, head size, and even head position relative to gravity could be used to tune which deep structures are optically sampled.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper reports Monte Carlo simulations of photon transport in a five-layer adult head model, showing that despite an extreme attenuation of ~10^18, diametric transmission is possible and that different source positions can probe deep brain regions (sulci, midbrain, cerebellum). The authors also present a TCSPC experiment on a single adult male subject (head diameter 15.5 cm) that measures roughly one photon per second with a 1.2 W source, and they compare the measured time-of-flight histogram to simulation, claiming agreement in the first two moments. They further analyze photon migration pathways and Jacobian sensitivity maps to propose source-detector configurations for deep-brain optical access.

Significance. If the experimental claim is correct, the paper overturns a widely assumed impossibility and would open a route to non-invasive optical sensing of deep brain regions. The numerical work is substantial: a large-scale MCX simulation (more than 850 GPU hours) on an open-source five-layer mesh with literature optical coefficients, no parameter fitting to the measured data, and explicit discussion of uncertainties in optical properties and anatomy. The experimental setup is described in enough detail to reproduce, and the authors are transparent about the limitations of their comparisons. However, the central experimental claim is currently supported by a single-subject TCSPC measurement without control experiments, so the significance, while potentially high, is not yet established.

major comments (4)
  1. [Experimental evidence (Fig. 2)] The central claim that photons are detected diametrically through the adult head is not supported by any control experiment. The paper reports no source-blocked measurement, no opaque-barrier test between source and detector, no no-subject baseline, and no subtraction of ambient light or electronic crosstalk. The stated PMT dark count rate of 15 cps is more than an order of magnitude larger than the claimed ~1 photon/s signal, so dark counts alone could constitute a substantial fraction of the detected events. Without such controls, the measured ToF histogram cannot be uniquely attributed to photons that traversed the head.
  2. [Photon migration pathways (paragraph after Fig. 3)] The paper states that 'it is likely that most of the experimentally detected photons propagated around the top of the head' (the sentence immediately following the description of Fig. 3b). This directly conflicts with the abstract's claim of light 'transmitted diametrically through the entire adult human head.' If most detected photons travel around the top of the head via extracerebral, CSF-guided paths, then the experiment demonstrates transmission across the head's surface, not deep-brain transmission. The authors need to clarify the exact claim and provide evidence that the detected signal is sensitive to deep-brain regions rather than scalp and CSF paths.
  3. [Experimental evidence (absolute attenuation)] The reported attenuation of ~10^18 is inferred from a detected count rate of roughly 1 photon/s and a 1.2 W source, but no calibration chain is given. The end-to-end detection efficiency, including the tapered fiber bundle transmission, the PMT quantum efficiency (15%), coupling losses, and reflection losses at interfaces, is not measured or estimated. A known-attenuation calibration or a direct measurement of the system's detection efficiency is required to convert the observed count rate into an attenuation value. Without this, the 10^18 figure is an order-of-magnitude estimate with unknown systematic error.
  4. [Experimental evidence (Fig. 2b, simulation comparison)] The agreement between simulated and experimental ToF distributions is limited to 'the first two moments,' i.e., peak delay and width. The authors acknowledge that the optical properties and anatomy in the simulation differ from the subject, and they note that surface-guided paths can produce similar delays to through-head paths. Therefore, the reported agreement is not a stringent test of the claim that the detected photons followed the simulated deep-brain pathways. This comparison does not substitute for the missing control experiments.
minor comments (6)
  1. [Author Contributions] The first author's contribution list contains a duplicate 'conceptualisation' entry; one should be removed.
  2. [Experimental evidence] 'Savitsky-Golay' is a misspelling; the correct name is 'Savitzky-Golay'.
  3. [Numerical modelling] 'single-point precision' should likely read 'single precision' when describing the MCX simulation.
  4. [Experimental evidence] The exact source and detector positions are not specified with respect to anatomical landmarks (e.g., ear canal, vertex), and the subject's hair and scalp condition are not described; these details are needed for reproducibility.
  5. [Photon migration pathways] The 5 cm diameter source launch area in the simulation is introduced to 'account for the uncertainty in position throughout the experiments,' but this is a modeling assumption rather than a measured parameter; it should be explicitly identified as such.
  6. [Experimental evidence (Fig. 2b)] The statement of 'good agreement' would be more quantitative if the authors reported the values of the first two moments (mean and variance) with their uncertainties, rather than only showing the curves.

Circularity Check

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No circular derivation: the detection claim is a direct measurement and the simulations use literature parameters; only minor non-load-bearing self-citations appear.

full rationale

The paper's central claim is an experimental TCSPC detection of ~1 photon/s at a diametric source-detector configuration, i.e., a direct measurement rather than a quantity derived from fitted parameters. The Monte Carlo model uses literature optical coefficients (ref. 18) and an open-source averaged-MRI head mesh (ref. 21); no parameters are fitted to the measured ToF distribution, and the simulated ToF is convolved with the instrumental IRF and compared to data as an independent check. The authors explicitly acknowledge deviations due to in vivo optical-property uncertainty (refs. 29-30) and anatomical differences, which further indicates the comparison is not tuned. There are self-citations (refs. 4, 5, 6, 23) used for motivation and for the CSF waveguiding mechanism, but these are published, externally verifiable results and are not invoked as a uniqueness theorem or as the sole support for the detection. The lack of a source-blocked or no-subject control is an experimental validity concern, not a circularity, because no equation or fitted parameter is defined in terms of the claimed outcome. No circular step can be exhibited by quoting an equation that reduces to its own input.

Assumptions & free parameters 1 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claims rest on the experimental signal being genuine through-head light, for which no control experiment is provided, and on simulation assumptions about anatomy and optical properties. No new physical entities are introduced. The only hand-chosen parameter is the 5 cm source launch area used in the simulation to represent positional uncertainty.

free parameters (1)
  • Source launch area in simulation (5 cm diameter)
    Chosen by hand to account for positional uncertainty in the experiment, not fitted to data. It affects the simulated ToF and pathway distributions used for comparison.
assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption The detected photons propagated through the head tissue and not around it or via crosstalk.
    No control experiment is reported; the TCSPC ToF match with simulation is the only support. Location: Experimental evidence, Fig. 2.
  • domain assumption The five-layer averaged MRI mesh [21] is representative enough of the participant's anatomy for ToF comparison and sensitivity analysis.
    The authors acknowledge differences in structure, shape, and thickness from the participant and expect the guiding principle, not fine details, to hold. Location: Numerical modelling and Conclusions.
  • domain assumption The optical properties from [18] at 810 nm apply to the participant.
    Simulation inputs are taken from the literature, not measured on the subject; the authors note up to 100% variation in the literature. Location: Numerical modelling and Conclusions.
  • domain assumption Cerebrospinal fluid acts as a low-scattering, low-absorption waveguide that guides light around the brain.
    This is based on prior fNIRS studies [24-26] and the authors' own waveguide work [23], and is not independently validated within this paper. Location: Photon migration pathways.

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Optical brain imaging technologies are promising due to their relatively high temporal resolution, portability and cost-effectiveness. However, the highly scattering nature of near-infrared light in human tissue makes it challenging to collect photons emerging from more than 4 cm below the scalp, or with source-detector separation larger than several centimeters. We explore the physical limits of photon transport in the head and show that despite an extreme attenuation of ~10^(18), we can experimentally detect light that is transmitted diametrically through the entire adult human head. Analysis of various photon migration pathways through the head also indicates how the source-detector configuration can be used to isolate photons interacting with deep regions of the brain that are inaccessible with current optical techniques.

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