Assessment of pressure wave reflection: Getting the timing right!

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1045-1056

  Segers, Patrick ^a   Rietzschel, Ernst R ^b   De Buyzere, Marc L ^b   De Bacquer, Dirk ^b   Van Bortel, Luc M ^c   De Backer, Guy ^b   Gillebert, Thierry C ^b   Verdonck, Pascal R ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Arterial function; Augmentation index; Blood pressure; Hemodynamics; Large arteries; Non invasive; Tonometry; Wave reflection

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; TIMING CIRCUITS; WAVE PROPAGATION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

ARTERIAL FUNCTION; AUGMENTATION INDEX; HAEMODYNAMICS; LARGE ARTERY; NON-INVASIVE; PRESSURE WAVE REFLECTIONS; SEPARATION ANALYSIS; TONOMETRY; WAVE REFLECTIONS; WAVE SEPARATION;

BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; AORTA FLOW; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY PULSE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; SEX DIFFERENCE; WAVEFORM;

EID: 34548169123     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: 13616579     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/28/9/006     Document Type: Article

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