A New Instrument for Continuous Measurement of Tissue Blood Flow by Light Beating Spectroscopy

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn BME-27, Issue 1, 1980, Pages 12-19

  Nilsson, Gert E ^a   Tenland, Torsten ^a   Öberg, P Åke ^a,b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD FLOW; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR SYSTEM; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SOFT TISSUE; SPECTROMETRY;

DOPPLER EFFECT; HUMAN; LASERS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; OPTICS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RHEOLOGY; SKIN; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

AMPLIFIERS, DIFFERENTIAL - APPLICATIONS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING - HEMODYNAMICS; DOPPLER EFFECT - APPLICATIONS; FLOWMETERS - LASER APPLICATIONS; LIGHT - REFLECTION;

LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS;

BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0019230971     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.1980.326686     Document Type: Article

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