Laser doppler flowmeters prototypes validation using Monte Carlo simulations

BIOINFORMATICS 2012 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 24-33

  Figueiras, Edite ^a   Campos, Rita ^a   Oliveira, Ricardo ^a   Ferreira, Luís F Requicha ^a   De Mul, Frits ^b   Humeau Heurtier, Anne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

Author keywords

Laser doppler flowmetry; Microcirculation; Monte carlo simulations

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PERFUSION; DEPTH DISCRIMINATION; FIRST ORDER; INCOMING LIGHT; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETERS; MILK CONCENTRATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MULTIWAVELENGTH; RAT BRAIN; SELF-MIXING; SKIN MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN MODELS; CLASSIFIERS; DOPPLER EFFECT; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOWMETERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROCIRCULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RATS;

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