Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy (DCS): A diagnostic tool for assessing tissue blood flow in vascular-related diseases and therapies

Current Medical Imaging Reviews

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 194-210

  Yu, Guoqiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis of Vascular Disease; Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy (DCS); Microvascular Blood Flow; Near infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS); Noninvasive Therapeutic Monitoring

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN;

BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CELL MOTION; CEREBRAL METABOLIC RATE OF OXYGEN; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFUSE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; DOPPLER OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; METABOLIC RATE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEOPLASM; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REVASCULARIZATION; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TISSUE BLOOD FLOW; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VASCULAR DISEASE; XENON ENHANCED COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84869110553     PISSN: 15734056     EISSN: 18756506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157340512803759875     Document Type: Review

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