Evaluation of arterial endothelial function using transit times of artificially induced pulses

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 293-307

  Maltz, Jonathan S ^a   Budinger, Thomas F ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Endothelium; Muscle; Nitric oxide; Pulse transit time; Pulse wave velocity; Reactive hyperemia; Smooth; Ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; DISEASES; NITRATES; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN OXIDES; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ARTERIAL WALL; BRACHIAL ARTERY; DIAMETER MEASUREMENT; ENDOTHELIAL FUNCTION; ENDOTHELIUM; PULSE TRANSIT TIME; PULSE-WAVE VELOCITY; REACTIVE HYPEREMIA; SMOOTH; VASORELAXATION;

MUSCLE;

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY TONE; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; COST; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPEREMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; RADIAL ARTERY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOOTH MUSCLE TONE; STETHOSCOPE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASODILATATION;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIAL ARTERY; VASODILATION;

EID: 23844501135     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: 09673334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/26/3/013     Document Type: Article

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