Reactive hyperemia-related changes in carotid-radial pulse wave velocity as a potential tool to characterize the endothelial dynamics

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1800-1803

  Torrado, Juan ^a   Bia, Daniel ^a   Zócalo, Yanina ^a   Valls, Gabriela ^a   Lluberas, Sebastián ^a   Craiem, Damián ^b   Armentano, Ricardo L ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA   (Uruguay)

^b FAVALORO UNIVERSITY   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; FUNCTION EVALUATION; STIFFNESS; STRAIN GAGES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; CLINICAL PRACTICES; ENDOTHELIAL FUNCTION; FLOW-MEDIATED DILATATION; PULSE WAVE VELOCITY; REACTIVE HYPEREMIA; TEMPORAL PROFILE; VASCULAR RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 77951001298     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333936     Document Type: Conference Paper

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