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Properties of thermal waves in vascular media; application to blood flow measurements
Author(s) -
Svaasand Lars O.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1118/1.595136
Subject(s) - blood flow , thermal , volumetric flow rate , mechanics , materials science , flow (mathematics) , biomedical engineering , physics , thermodynamics , cardiology , medicine
This paper discusses a principle for the determination of the blood perfusion rate. The method is based upon measurement of the phase‐shift between periodic heat flow and the corresponding temperature rise.