Temporal heterogeneity of the blood flow velocity at the middle cerebral artery in the normal human characterized by fractal analysis

Acta Physiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 191-198

  ROSSITTI, S ^a   STEPHENSEN, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biological oscillators; blood circulation; blood flow velocity; cerebral arteries; Doppler ultrasound; fractals; haemodynamics; monitoring; temporal correlation.

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CASE REPORT; HEMODYNAMICS;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; COMPUTERS; FEMALE; FRACTALS; HUMAN; MALE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 0028243434     PISSN: 00016772     EISSN: 1365201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.1994.tb09737.x     Document Type: Article

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