“…SPAD-based methods usually suffer from either having a limited area or ineffective gating. A pinned photodiode (PPD)-based CIS has also been developed to realize timeresolved sensing [13], [14], [15], [16]; however, the intrinsic response and sensitivity at the near-infrared region are not sufficient for the TR-NIRS. Intrinsic response in the order of a few hundred picoseconds is desired to obtain meaningful information [17], [18].…”