Blood flow in microcirculation has found vital role in maintenance of body temperature. Its measurement is vital in the field of skin-vessel reactivity, ageing of skin, micro vascular repair of the ulnar artery and wound healing in association with total elbow replacement. The existing techniques for blood flow measurements like Electromagnetic blood flow measurement, Thermal convection method,...

introduction: arterial stiffness is an important predictor of cardiovascular risk. several indices have been  introduced to estimate the arterial stiffness based on the changes in the brachial blood pressure. since the  substitution  of  the  blood  pressure  changes  in  the  central  arteries  such  as  carotid  with  the  blood  pressure  changes in the brachial results in error in the blood...

Objectives: There has been no method which can measure regional myocardial blood flow in real-time and continuously. The purpose of this study was to validate myocardial blood flow measurement using a thermal diffusion method. For this purpose, myocardial blood flow measurement was performed using the thermal diffusion method and the electrolytic hydrogen clearance method. Methods: Seven pigs w...

One of the primary measurements the physician would like to acquire from a patient is that of the concentration of O2 and other nutrients in the cells. Such quantities are normally so difficult to measure that the doctor is forced to accept the second-class measurements of blood flow and changes in blood volume, which usually correlate with concentration of nutrients. If blood flow is difficult...

In 14 subjects with normal coronary arteries the mean coronary sinus blood flow was 122 25 mI/min (range, 83 to 159 ml/min). The blood flow computed per 100 g of left ventricle was 82 + 16 ml/min, which is in the range of values obtained by nitrous oxide and coincidence counting methods. In 35 patients with arteriographically confirmed coronary artery disease the mean flow was similar (128 + 20...

Pancreatic islets are richly vascularized, and islet blood vessels are uniquely adapted to maintain and support the internal milieu of the islets favoring normal endocrine function. Islet blood flow is normally very high compared with that to the exocrine pancreas and is autonomously regulated through complex interactions between the nervous system, metabolites from insulin secreting β-cells, e...

• A variety of methods for measuring cerebral blood flow have been developed in the past 25 years since Kety and Schmidt developed their method based on the Fick principle. None of the currently used methods approaches the clinical ideal, since none of the techniques are accurate, reproducible and noninvasive. Most accurate techniques involve catheterization of internal carotid artery and/or ju...

Real-time B-mode ultrasonography was combined with a pulsed Doppler ultrasound technique for transcutaneous measurement of human fetal blood flow in the aorta and intra-abdominal part of the umbilical vein. The target vessel was located and its diameter measured in the two-dimensional real-time image. The pulsed Doppler transducer was attached to the real-time transducer at a fixed angle. By pr...

Introduction: Arterial stiffness is an important predictor of cardiovascular risk. Several indices have been  introduced to estimate the arterial stiffness based on the changes in the brachial blood pressure. Since the  substitution  of  the  blood  pressure  changes  in  the  central  arteries  such  as  carotid  with  the  blood  pressure  changes in the brachial results in error in the blood...

A 5-megacycle Doppler flow meter, calibrated in-vitro, was found to give a linear response to blood flow in the ranges commonly encountered in haemodialysis. With this, blood flow through artificial kidneys could be measured simply and with a clinically acceptable error. The method is safe, as blood lines do not have to be punctured or disconnected and hence there is no risk of introducing infe...