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Multi-Aperture PPG with MAPIS: Spatial Optical and Temporal Coherence Fields

Shuguang Wang·Yuanjing Wang
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Conventional reflectance photoplethysmography (PPG) typically reduces tissue optical responses to one or a few detector channels. Matrix Pinhole Image Sensing (MAPIS) instead simultaneously samples multiple aperture-dependent optical signals. We analyzed 44 recordings of 30 seconds each from a single MAPIS device to characterize the spatial relationships among DC intensity, pulsatile AC, perfusion index (PI), and temporal coherence across Red and infrared channels. AC increased sublinearly with DC at both wavelengths, resulting in higher PI toward lower-DC apertures, consistent with a first-order relative path-sensitivity interpretation. A second counterintuitive spatial trend was observed in temporal coherence: lower-DC and lower-AC apertures exhibited higher autocorrelation and greater cardiac-periodic spectral concentration. IR signals also showed consistently higher temporal coherence than corresponding Red signals. These observations demonstrate that multi-aperture PPG resolves reproducible spatial relationships among optical intensity, fractional pulsatile sensitivity, and waveform coherence that are largely averaged together in conventional single-channel PPG. The present study establishes within-device relationships and motivates controlled studies of the underlying photon-path mechanisms.

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Shuguang Wang, Yuanjing Wang. 2026-09-27. Multi-Aperture PPG with MAPIS: Spatial Optical and Temporal Coherence Fields. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.33790

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