Investigation of the arterial stiffness on renal artery doppler sonograms

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 101-106

  Tokmakçı, Mahmut ^a   Erdoğan, Nuri ^a  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Arterial stiffness; Compliance; Doppler ultrasound; Savitzky Golay smoothing method; Short time Fourier transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 61349117480     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-008-9169-1     Document Type: Article

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