{"id":50990,"date":"2025-09-05T17:05:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T21:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vielight.com\/?p=50990"},"modified":"2025-10-10T13:51:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:51:27","slug":"illuminating-the-brain-the-vielight-neuros-energy-footprint-full-transcranial-intranasal-footprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vielight.com\/blog\/illuminating-the-brain-the-vielight-neuros-energy-footprint-full-transcranial-intranasal-footprint\/","title":{"rendered":"Illuminating the Brain | The Vielight Neuro\u2019s Energy Footprint | Full Transcranial-Intranasal Footprint"},"content":{"rendered":"

What \u201cenergy footprint\u201d means<\/h2>\n

When light energy enters the head through a single point, it doesn\u2019t stay as a tiny dot. As it passes through skin, skull, the fluid around the brain (CSF), and cortex, multiple scattering events<\/strong> spread and redirect the beam. The resulting energy footprint<\/strong> is broad, overlapping fields<\/strong> of light fluence.<\/p>\n

The Vielight Neuro 4\u2019s geometry is engineered to intentionally overlap these broadened fields<\/strong> over Default Mode Network<\/strong> (DMN) nodes with the highest independently measured irradiance<\/a> in commercially available brain photobiomodulation devices, while still bathing the wider cortex<\/strong>. This is why five VieLED modules<\/strong> can produce an effect that is effectively full\u2011transcranial<\/strong>, with a focus on the DMN.<\/p>\n

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Plain\u2011English summary:<\/strong> Five specialized LEDs \u2260 five dots. Physics turns five dots into five large, overlapping halos that cover the cortex, with positioning that accentuates DMN hubs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Vielight Neuro Pro 2, with twelve higher-powered VieLED modules,<\/strong> produces an even stronger intensity with the ability to target more networks individually for precision-based photobiomodulation.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Why Five Vie-LEDs provide full Transcranial Coverage<\/h2>\n

A CMOS-based camera was used to detect and translate 810nm (invisible to the human eye) fluence through a human skull.<\/p>\n

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\n1) Skull scattering amplifies coverage.<\/strong> The skull\u2019s (bone) mineralized matrix<\/strong> is highly uneven<\/strong>. Incoming photons undergo Mie\u2011dominant scattering<\/strong>, so a narrow beam entering bone emerges as a wide-spread halo<\/strong>\u00a0with a concentration on contact points.<\/p>\n

2) Skin\/scalp. <\/strong>The scalp consists of collagen fibers, fat, and small blood vessels\u2014each of these components absorb, scatter and refract light energy.<\/p>\n

3) Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) scatters photons.<\/strong> The liquid which the brain floats in, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) also scatters light energy, helping spread light energy sideways, so it fans out over the tops of the brain\u2019s folds and into nearby areas.<\/p>\n

4) Overlapping light halos \u2192 whole\u2011cortex coverage.<\/strong> The Vielight Neuro 4\u2019s VieLEDs are strategically positioned<\/strong> so their broadened halos overlap across the brain. The result is full coverage<\/strong> but with a focus on the Default Mode Network (DMN)<\/b>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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DMN 1<\/h2>

Figure 1: The DMN in cerebral brain scans in different mental states.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

DMN\u2011Focused Geometry (With full transcranial PBM)<\/h2>\n

A dysfunctional Default Mode Network is linked with psychiatric problems like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, etc. In traumatic brain injuries (TBI), the DMN is often disrupted<\/strong>\u2014its connections can become weaker or noisy, and the brain struggles to switch off the DMN and switch on task networks<\/strong>, which maps to brain-fog, slowed thinking, fatigue, and problems with attention and memory. Which is why improving functional connectivity of the DMN is so important in research.<\/p>\n

For creativity, the DMN supplies the raw material\u2014spontaneous associations, memory recombination, daydreaming\u2014while the salience and executive networks pick, refine, and test those ideas; the healthiest pattern isn\u2019t a constantly high DMN, but flexible switching<\/strong> between DMN and task networks, which predicts better divergent thinking and creative output.<\/p>\n

The Vielight Neuro 4\u2019s layout concentrates on these hubs<\/strong> so the diffuse halos focus<\/strong>\u00a0where the DMN nodes reside, while still spreading<\/strong> energy into frontal, temporal, and lateral parietal cortices. This DMN\u2011weighted<\/strong> strategy aligns with the Neuro 4\u2019s intent to support large\u2011scale network dynamics<\/strong> while maintaining whole\u2011brain coverage<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Bottom line:<\/strong> It may look like \u201cjust five super powerful LEDs,\u201d but their collective energy footprint<\/strong> blankets the cortex and leans into the DMN<\/strong> where hubs are densest.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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