Laser Doppler perfusion monitoring of skin blood flow at different depths in finger and arm upon local heating

Microvascular Research

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 183-189

  Freccero, Carolin ^a   Holmlund, Frank ^a   Bornmyr, Siv ^a   Castenfors, Jan ^a   Johansson, Anne Marie ^a   Sundkvist, Göran ^a   Svensson, Henry ^a   Wollmer, Per ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Arteriovenous shunts; Capillary flow; Concentration; Fiber separation; Laser Doppler perfusion monitoring; Local heating; Measuring depths; Skin blood flow; Sympathetic vasodilatation; Velocity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; DISTAL PHALANX; FEMALE; FLOW KINETICS; FOREARM BLOOD FLOW; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEART BEAT; HEATING; HUMAN; INDEX FINGER; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MECHANICAL PROBE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 0242426562     PISSN: 00262862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2003.06.001     Document Type: Article

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