Transcranial optical monitoring of cerebrovascular hemodynamics in acute stroke patients

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 3884-3902

  Durduran, Turgut ^a,b   Zhou, Chao ^a   Edlow, Brian L ^a   Yu, Guoqiang ^a   Choe, Regine ^a   Kim, Meeri N ^a   Cucchiara, Brett L ^a   Putt, Mary E ^a   Shah, Qaisar ^a   Kasner, Scott E ^a   Greenberg, Joel H ^a   Yodh, Arjun G ^a   Detrey, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; HEMOGLOBIN; INFRARED DEVICES; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE; AUTOREGULATIONS; CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW; DIFFUSE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; FRONTAL CORTEX; OPTICAL MONITORING; STROKE PATIENTS; TOTAL HEMOGLOBINS;

HEMODYNAMICS;

DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HOMEOSTASIS; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STROKE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, NEUROLOGICAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEMOGLOBINS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTICAL PHENOMENA; OXYHEMOGLOBINS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; POSTURE; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; STROKE;

EID: 61549136428     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.003884     Document Type: Article

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