Combined optical and near infrared reflectance measurements of vasomotion in both skin and underlying muscle

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6434, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Thorn, Clare E ^a   Shore, Angela C ^a   Matcher, Stephen J ^b  

^a PENINSULA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Near infrared spectroscopy; Optical reflectance spectroscopy; Vasomotion

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; LIGHT REFLECTION; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY;

CAPILLARY LOOPS; HAEMODYNAMICS; OPTICAL REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY (ORS); VASOMOTION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 34247346169     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.700801     Document Type: Conference Paper

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