Muscle near-infrared spectroscopy
Bridging science,
technology and practice.
mNIRS brings together the researchers, clinicians, practitioners and manufacturers working on muscle near-infrared spectroscopy: how it is measured, how it is reported, and what it can tell us about working muscle.
17–19 September 2026 · University of Pavia
Three days in Pavia
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Day 1 · Thursday
Sponsor showcase alongside scientific presentations from leading international experts.
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Day 2 · Friday
Research contributions from established investigators, early-career scientists, and PhD and Master's students.
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Day 3 · Saturday
Real-world demonstrations and applied discussion in sporting contexts, closing with a roundtable on future directions.
From the community
News
- muscleNIRS.com
mNIRS 2026 conference review – this time by someone who was there!
As promised here is a guest blog by my colleague Chris McManus. Chris went to Pavia and gave an invited lecture describing his new software for measuring…
- Tools
MCMITO 1.3.0 now available
Version 1.3.0 adds the Beever et al. (2020) blood flow correction, a best-fit slope window and a redesigned marker panel. Users on 1.1.0 or 1.2.0 can update from within the app.
- muscleNIRS.com
mNIRS 2026 initial thoughts and my new favourite mNIRS experiment!
I couldn’t make it to Pavia unfortunately. For a look at what you and I missed click here . Fortunately for us all, we will be updating the blog with highlights over…
- Tools
New tool added: MCMITO
A free Windows application that imports raw repeated occlusion NIRS recordings and delivers resting mV̇O₂, the rate constant and the time constant within minutes, created by Chris McManus at the University of Essex. Now listed on the Tools page.
- Tools
New tool added: {mnirs} app
A browser based app and open source R package by Jem Arnold for reading, processing and analysing muscle NIRS data from Moxy, Artinis, PIONIRS, Train.Red and other devices. Now listed on the Tools page.
Talks, tutorials and webinars
Video library
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Keynote Muscle oxygenation and its use to study mitochondrial capacity Prof. Kevin McCully, University of Georgia -
Plenary Monitoring in sport has changed: time to consider muscle oxygenation Prof. Stéphane Perrey, Université de Montpellier -
Invited mNIRS in health care and observational cohort studies Dr Siana Jones
Industry
Muscle NIRS providers
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