Reproducibility and accuracy of oscillometric measurement of the brachial artery cross-sectional area

Therapeutic Research

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1701-1709

  Munakata, Ryo ^a   Otsuka, Toshiaki ^b   Umeda, Munenori ^c   Kato, Katsuhito ^b   Ibuki, Chikao ^a   Seino, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL CHIBA HOKUSOH HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c A and D Company Limited   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLOMETER; OSCILLOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

EID: 84871593114     PISSN: 02898020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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