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Spatial Temporal Analysis of Fieldwise Flow in Microvasculature
Published on: November 18, 2019
Shape analysis of the microcirculatory flow wave
L Bocchi1, A Evangelisti, M Barrella
1Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, 50121 Florence, Italy.
Abstract:
The cardiovascular system and its alterations are a crucial aspect of physiology and medicine. Non-invasive assessment of the functional properties of circulation is of considerable interest to clinicians and physiologists. In this work we investigate the possibility of detecting alterations of the flow waveform in microcirculation, using non-invasive measurements based on a laser Doppler flowmeter. As a test case, we focus on the effect of ageing. Skin is warmed up to a fixed temperature (44 °C) during measurement, to increase blood flow. The shape of the perfusion waveform during each heart beat after the flow was stabilized was used to estimate dynamic parameters of the microcirculatory system. Both the wave rise time, defined as the delay between the diastolic minimum and the following systolic maximum, and the oscillation fraction, defined as the normalized difference between the maximum and minimum flow, present significant variation with age.
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