Wavelet analysis of blood flow dynamics: Effect on the individual oscillatory components of iontophoresis with pharmacologically neutral electrolytes

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2004, Pages

  Veber, Mitja ^a   Bandrivskyy, Andriy ^b   Clarkson, Peter B M ^c   McClintock, Peter V E ^b   Stefanovska, Aneta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL LANCASTER INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; ELECTROLYTES; FLUID DYNAMICS; FREQUENCIES; LASER APPLICATIONS; MEDICINE; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

BLOOD FLOW DYNAMICS; IONTOPHORESIS; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY (LDF); OSCILLATORY COMPONENTS;

BLOOD;

ELECTROLYTE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VASOACTIVE AGENT; WATER;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IONIZATION; IONTOPHORESIS; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SPECTROSCOPY; VASODILATATION; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; ELECTROLYTES; HUMANS; IONTOPHORESIS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OSCILLOMETRY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN; TIME FACTORS; VASODILATOR AGENTS; WATER;

EID: 2342489343     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/8/N03     Document Type: Article

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