S-transform applied to laser doppler flowmetry reactive hyperemia signals

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1032-1037

  Assous, Said ^a   Humeau, Anne ^a   Tartas, Maylis ^b   Abraham, Pierre ^b   L'Huillier, Jean Pierre ^c  

^a Groupe ISAIP ESAIP   (France)

^b ANGERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c Arts et Metiers ParisTech   (France)

Author keywords

Laser doppler flowmetry; Microcirculation; Reactive hyperemia; S transform; Time frequency analysis

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; FLOWMETERS; LASER APPLICATIONS; MICROCIRCULATION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; REACTIVE HYPEREMIA; S-TRANSFORMS; TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS;

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM;

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; DATA ANALYSIS; ENDOTHELIUM; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPEREMIA; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NORMAL HUMAN; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; TIME; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FOREARM; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN;

EID: 33744995766     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2005.863843     Document Type: Article

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