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Evaluation of Cerebral Blood Flow Autoregulation in the Rat Using Laser Doppler Flowmetry
Published on: January 19, 2020
Correlation between laser Doppler flowmetry metrics and continuous blood pressure in free flap monitoring
Hiroki Kodama1, Katsuhiro Ishida2, Haruyuki Hirayama2
1Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; Research Centre for Biomedical Engineering, City University of London, London, United Kingdom; Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
No abstract available in PubMed .
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