Reproducibility and variability of digital thermal monitoring of vascular reactivity

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 422-428

  Ahmadi, Naser ^a   McQuilkin, Gary L ^b   Akhtar, Mohammad W ^c   Hajsadeghi, Fereshteh ^a   Kleis, Stanley J ^c   Hecht, Harvey ^d   Naghavi, Morteza ^e   Budoff, Matthew ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Cardiowave Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^d LENOX HILL HEART AND VASCULAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e American Heart Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Coefficient of repeatability; Digital thermal monitoring; Framingham risk score; Vascular function; Vascular reactivity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUFF; DEVICE; DIGITAL THERMAL MONITORING; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; FRAMINGHAM RISK SCORE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SUPINE POSITION;

ADULT; AREA UNDER CURVE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONSTRICTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FINGERS; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; MALE; MATERIALS TESTING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TEXAS; THERMOGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 80053930950     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: 1475097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2011.01037.x     Document Type: Article

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