Wall shear stress quantification in the human conjunctival pre-capillary arterioles in vivo

Microvascular Research

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 34-39

  Koutsiaris, Aristotle G ^a   Tachmitzi, Sophia V ^b   Batis, Nick ^a  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^b GENERAL HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BLOOD VISCOSITY; BLOOD VOLUME; CINERADIOGRAPHY; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCULAR BLOOD VESSEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; SHEAR RATE; SHEAR STRESS; SYSTOLE;

ADULT; ARTERIOLES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CAPILLARIES; CONJUNCTIVA; DIASTOLE; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEART; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SYSTOLE;

EID: 84871721438     PISSN: 00262862     EISSN: 10959319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2012.11.003     Document Type: Article

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