Assessment of skin microvascular function and dysfunction with laser speckle contrast imaging

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 155-163

  Mahé, Guillaume ^a   Humeau Heurtier, Anne ^b   Durand, Sylvain ^c   Leftheriotis, Georges ^a   Abraham, Pierre ^a  

^a ANGERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU MAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Endothelium; Iontophoresis; Lasers; Methods; Microcirculation; Physiology; Skin

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADRENALIN; BRADYKININ; BRETYLIUM; C PEPTIDE; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; HISTAMINE; INSULIN; METHACHOLINE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; NORADRENALIN; PHENYLEPHRINE; SUBSTANCE P;

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL FUNCTION; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CALCULATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IONTOPHORESIS; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LASER DOPPLER PERFUSION IMAGING; LASER SPECKLE CONTRAST IMAGING; MICROCIRCULATION; MICRODIALYSIS; MICROVASCULATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION; ANIMAL; BLOOD FLOW; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; SKIN; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MICROCIRCULATION; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SKIN; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 84858324809     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.111.970418     Document Type: Article

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