Local cooling reduces skin ischemia under surface pressure in rats: An assessment by wavelet analysis of laser Doppler blood flow oscillations

Physiological Measurement

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1733-1745

  Jan, Yih Kuen ^a,b   Lee, Bernard ^b   Liao, Fuyuan ^a   Foreman, Robert D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cooling; heating; laser Doppler; pressure ulcers; wavelet

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CLASSIFIERS; DISEASES; DOPPLER EFFECT; HEMODYNAMICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; RATS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

BLOOD FLOW OSCILLATIONS; ISCHAEMIA; LASER DOPPLER; LOCAL COOLING; PRESSURE ULCERS; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SURFACE PRESSURES; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; WAVELET; WAVELET-ANALYSIS;

COOLING;

RATTUS;

EID: 84866706760     PISSN: 09673334     EISSN: 13616579     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0967-3334/33/10/1733     Document Type: Article

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