Reproducibility of skin microcirculatory measurements in humans, with special emphasis on capillaroscopy

Vascular Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 203-210

  Abbink, Evertine J ^a   Wollersheim, Hub ^a   Netten, Paetrick M ^a   Smits, Paul ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CapiFlow; Capillaroscopy; Capillary blood cell velocity; Laser Doppler fluxmetry; Microcirculation; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CALCULATION; CAPILLAROSCOPY; CAPILLARY BLOOD; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; FINGER NAIL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; MICROCIRCULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0035725780     PISSN: 1358863X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1358836X0100600401     Document Type: Article

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