Cerebral blood flow and autoregulation: Current measurement techniques and prospects for noninvasive optical methods

Neurophotonics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Fantini, Sergio ^a   Sassaroli, Angelo ^a   Tgavalekos, Kristen T ^a   Kornbluth, Joshua ^b  

^a Tufts University   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

autoregulation; Cerebral perfusion; coherent hemodynamics spectroscopy; computed tomography perfusion; diffuse correlation spectroscopy; laser Doppler flowmetry; near infrared spectroscopy; perfusion magnetic resonance imaging; transcranial Doppler

Indexed keywords

BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; INFRARED DEVICES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; OPTICAL ENGINEERING; OXYGEN SUPPLY;

AUTOREGULATIONS; CEREBRAL PERFUSION; DIFFUSE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER;

BRAIN;

KRYPTON 85; XENON 133;

ARTERIAL LINE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COHERENT HEMODYNAMICS SPECTROSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER EFFECT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICS; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPHYGMOMANOMETER; SPIN LABELING; THERMAL DIFFUSION; THERMAL DIFFUSION FLOWMETRY; THERMODILUTION; TONOMETRY; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TRANSIT TIME ULTRASONIC FLOWMETRY;

EID: 84979085440     PISSN: 2329423X     EISSN: 23294248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.NPh.3.3.031411     Document Type: Article

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