Validity and reproducibility of electrical impedance tomography for measurement of calf blood flow in healthy subjects

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 107-112

  Vonk Noordegraaf, A ^a   Kunst, P W A ^a   Janse, A ^a   Smulders, R A ^a   Heethaar, R M ^a   Postmus, P E ^a   Faes, T J C ^a   De Vries, P M J M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Electrical impedance; Plethysmography; Tomography

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; FLOW MEASUREMENT; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; STRAIN GAGES;

ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY (EIT); VENOUS OCCLUSION;

HEMODYNAMICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; BLOOD VOLUME; COMPUTER ASSISTED IMPEDANCE TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPEDANCE PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEG BLOOD FLOW; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY; REST; VEIN OCCLUSION;

EID: 0031105346     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02534139     Document Type: Article

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