An innovative approach to near-infrared spectroscopy using a standard mobile device and its clinical application in the real-time visualization of peripheral veins

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Juric, Simon ^a,b   Zalik, Borut ^b  

^a Advanced ICT Research Group (AIRG)   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Feasibility studies; Health education; Mobile applications; Near infrared; Spectroscopy; Vascular access devices

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DEVICES; ECONOMICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; MICROCOMPUTER; MOBILE APPLICATION; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NURSING; NURSING EDUCATION; PHLEBOTOMY; PROCEDURES; SLOVENIA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; EDUCATION, NURSING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; PHLEBOTOMY; SLOVENIA; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; VASCULAR ACCESS DEVICES;

EID: 84964315919     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12911-014-0100-z     Document Type: Article

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