Potential of a high-frequency correlation method to study skin blood flow

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 21-26

  Gens, Fabrice ^a   Remenieras, Jean Pierre ^a   Patat, Frédéric ^a   Diridollou, Stéphane ^b   Berson, Marceau ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE PIERRE FABRE   (France)

Author keywords

Radio frequency (RF) signals; Skin blood flow; Time domain correlation method; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CASE REPORT; ERYSIPELAS; HUMAN; MICROCIRCULATION; RADIOFREQUENCY; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0033983389     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0846.2000.006001021.x     Document Type: Article

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