Noninvasive blood flow measurement using speckle signals from a self-mixing laser diode: in vitro and in vivo experiments

Optical Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 2574-2580

  Özdemir, Şahin Kaya ^a,b   Shinohara, Shigenobu ^a   Takamiya, Sotetsu ^a   Yoshida, Hirofumi ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; CELLS; HEMODYNAMICS; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; OPTICAL CORRELATION; PHOTODIODES; REFLECTION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SKIN; SPECKLE;

AUTOCORRELATION; BLOOD FLOW MEASUREMENT; EXTERNAL CAVITY LASER; OPTICAL FEEDBACK; SELF MIXING EFFECT; SPECKLE VELOCIMETRY;

LASER DOPPLER VELOCIMETERS;

EID: 0034266840     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1287262     Document Type: Article

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