Thermal clearance blood flow sensor-sensitivity, linearity and flow depth discrimination

Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1989, Pages 394-398

  Thalayasingam, S ^a   Delpy, D T ^b  

^a Gas Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Thermal clearance; Transcutaneous

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF FLUIDS--SENSORS; SENSORS--MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

THERMAL CLEARANCE BLOOD FLOW SENSOR; TISSUE PERFUSION SIMULATOR; TRANSCUTANEOUS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

METHODOLOGY; SENSOR; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; HUMAN; MODELS, ANATOMIC; RHEOLOGY; SKIN; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 0024697560     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: 17410444     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02441431     Document Type: Article

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