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The primary effect of light penetration into neural tissue is the heat generated inside the volume as a result of photons being absorbed. The spatio-temporal distribution of the temperature increase in the tissue is not very intuitive since it depends on many parameters including the optical properties of the medium and the thermal time constant that depends on the size of the volume being illuminated...