Fiber-optic laser-Doppler anemometer microscope applied to the cerebral microcirculation in rats

Biorheology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 463-470

  Seki, J ^a   Sasaki, Y ^b   Oyama, T ^b   Yamamoto, J ^b  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b KOBE GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Closed cranial window; Laser Doppler anemometer; Red cell velocity; Velocity diameter relation; Wall shear rate

Indexed keywords

ANEMOMETRY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MICROCIRCULATION; ERYTHROCYTE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COMPUTERS; ERYTHROCYTES; FIBER OPTICS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0030464745     PISSN: 0006355X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-355X(97)00034-6     Document Type: Article

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