An Instrument to Measure Cutaneous Blood Flow Using the Doppler Shift of Laser Light

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn BME-25, Issue 1, 1978, Pages 28-33

  Watkins, Dennis ^a   Holloway, G Allen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT - APPLICATIONS; FIBER OPTICS - APPLICATIONS; LASER BEAMS - APPLICATIONS; LASERS, GAS - APPLICATIONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING - APPLICATIONS;

CUTANEOUS BLOOD FLOW;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

BLOOD FLOWMETRY; DOPPLER FLOWMETER; ERYTHROCYTE; HEART; HUMAN CELL; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER; NORMAL HUMAN; SKIN;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DOPPLER EFFECT; HUMAN; LASERS; METHODS; SKIN; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0017904876     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.1978.326374     Document Type: Article

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