Medical needle insertion procedures possess the risk of life-threatening blood vessel rapture. Here we report a compact laser Doppler Flowmetry (LDF) based system that has a potential of blood vessel ...

Signal processing methodology to study the cutaneous vasodilator response to a local external pressure application detected by laser Doppler flowmetry Abstract:The existence of a cutaneous ...

Arterial stiffness, a leading marker of risk in hypertension, can be measured at material or structural levels, with the latter combining effects of the geometry and composition of the wall, including ...

The endothelium is considered to be the gatekeeper of the vessel wall, maintaining and regulating vascular integrity. In patients with chronic kidney disease, protective endothelial cell functions are ...

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Aim: To investigate the effects of niacin on choroidal blood flow in age related macular degeneration (AMD). Methods: 12 AMD patients with bilateral drusen and visual acuity of 20/40 or better in the ...