Increasing the "region of interest" and "time of interest", both reduce the variability of blood flow measurements using laser speckle contrast imaging

Microvascular Research

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 88-91

  Rousseau, Pascal ^a,d   Mahé, Guillaume ^a,d   Haj Yassin, Firas ^a   Durand, Sylvain ^b   Humeau, Anne ^c   Leftheriotis, Georges ^a,d   Abraham, Pierre ^a,d  

^a ANGERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU MAINE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

^d Universite d'Angers   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGING; LASER SPECKLE CONTRAST IMAGING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGION OF INTEREST; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; TIME OF INTEREST;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; SKIN; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79957859121     PISSN: 00262862     EISSN: 10959319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2011.03.009     Document Type: Article

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