“…To improve on these shortcomings, NIRS undergoes a transition from a single-point technique employing one or several source-detector pairs towards an optical mapping technique by applying, first of all, large arrays of source-detector pairs [9]. Secondly, two-dimensional (2D) imaging approaches are realized in a variety of different methods, ranging from structured illumination combined with frequency-domain NIRS [10][11][12][13] to flying-spot scanning methods [14]. These imaging approaches have already been applied to a variety of tasks, such as measuring optical properties of different types of phantoms and biological tissue [10,12,15,16].…”