Thermodiffusion for continuous quantification of hepatic microcirculation - Validation and potential in liver transplantation

Microvascular Research

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 156-166

  Klar, Ernst ^a   Kraus, Thomas ^a   Bleyl, Jörg ^a   Newman, William H ^b   Bowman, H Frederick ^b   Hofmann, Walter J ^a   Kummer, Rüdiger V ^a   Bredt, Monika ^a   Herfarth, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Liver microcirculation; Quantification; Thermodiffusion; Validation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETER; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER HISTOLOGY; LIVER PERFUSION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MICROCIRCULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REPERFUSION INJURY; SWINE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0032862437     PISSN: 00262862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mvre.1999.2166     Document Type: Article

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