Photoacoustic imaging of hemodynamic changes in forearm skeletal muscle during cuff occlusion

Jinge Yang1, Guang Zhang2,3, Wu Chang2,3

  • 1School of Optoelectric Engineering, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China.

Biomedical Optics Express
|September 14, 2020
PubMed

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