Monitoring of subarachnoid space and cerebrovascular pulsation with near-infrared transillumination/back scattering - New aspects of the method

Opto-Electronics Review

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 175-183

  Frydrychowski, A F ^a   Rojewski, M ^b   Guminski W ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^b GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cardiac cycle; Subarachnoid space; Transillumination

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348002065     PISSN: 12303402     EISSN: 18963757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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