Excellent reproducibility of laser speckle contrast imaging to assess skin microvascular reactivity

Microvascular Research

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 505-511

  Roustit, M ^a,b   Millet, C ^a,b   Blaise, S ^a,b   Dufournet, B ^a   Cracowski, J L ^a,b  

^a GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Laser Doppler; Laser speckle contrast imaging; Microcirculation; Post occlusive reactive hyperemia; Reproducibility; Thermal hyperemia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; FOREARM BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPEREMIA; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LASER DOPPLER IMAGING; LASER SPECKLE CONTRAST IMAGING; MALE; MICROVASCULARIZATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKIN; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78249231988     PISSN: 00262862     EISSN: 10959319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2010.05.012     Document Type: Article

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