Distance between laser head and skin does not influence skin blood flow values recorded by laser speckle imaging

Microvascular Research

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 439-442

  Mahé, Guillaume ^a,d   Haj Yassin, Firas ^a   Rousseau, Pascal ^a,d   Humeau, Anne ^c   Durand, Sylvain ^b   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; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; BLOOD VESSEL COMPLIANCE; CHILD; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPEREMIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEM; LASER SPECKLE CONTRAST IMAGING; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN BLOOD FLOW;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEREMIA; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LASERS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 81055157029     PISSN: 00262862     EISSN: 10959319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2011.06.014     Document Type: Article

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