The non-invasive assessment of blood flow is invaluable for the diagnostic and monitoring treatment of numerous vascular and neurological diseases. We developed a non-invasive and non-contact method of blood pulsation imaging capable of visualizing and monitoring of the two-dimensional distribution of two key parameters of peripheral blood flow: the blood pulsation amplitude and blood pulsation...

Aims. XZ Ceti is the only known anomalous Cepheid in the Galactic field. Being the nearest and brightest such variable star, a detailed study of XZ Ceti may shed light on the behaviour of anomalous Cepheids whose representatives have been mostly detected in external galaxies. Methods. CCD photometric and radial velocity observations have been obtained. The actual period and amplitude of pulsati...

This paper aimed at investigating the properties of cultured cardiomyocytes using microcirculatory and molecular technology to culture cardiomyocytes from different parts of the neonate Wistar rat's heart and record their spontaneous pulsation under time-lapse video microscopy, then analyze their activity and inspect their survival rate and apoptotic rate under natural and nitric oxide conditio...

The compression efficiency of a rolling piston type rotary compressor for room airconditioners was analyzed, Suction passage loss is one of the detracting factors in compression efficiency and we studied its main cause, i.e. the pressure pulsation generated in the suction line, and clarified the relation between suction line specification and suction passage loss. A method of evaluating the suc...

The article deals with pneumatic and hot wire anemometry measurement on subsonic axi-symmetric air ejector. Performances of the ejector with and without pulsations of primary flow are compared, measuring of characteristic pressures and mass flow rates are performed and ejector efficiency is evaluated. The pulsations of primary flow are produced by a synthetic jet generator, which is placed in t...

The discovery of β Cephei stars in low metallicity environments, as well as the difficulty in theoretically explaining the excitation of the pulsation modes observed in some β Cephei and hybrid SPB-β Cephei pulsators, suggest that the “iron opacity bump” provided by stellar models could be underestimated. We analyze the effect of uncertainties in the opacity computations and in the solar metal ...

A new time-series analysis of profile changes in the photospheric He I λ4713 spectral line from data taken during 5 days in 1989 at the Calar Alto and Kitt Peak observatories has provided evidence for the presence of a non-radial prograde p-mode in the O 7.5 giant ξ Per (` = 3, P = 3.5) and probably two such modes in the O6 supergiant λ Cep (` = 3, P = 12.3 h and ` = 5, P = 6.6 h). The corotati...

PURPOSE To establish a standard clinical procedure for measuring intraocular pressure (Po) with the contact lens tonometer (CLT), to demonstrate possibilities for analyzing ocular pulsation and performing ophthalmodynamometry. METHODS A reliable histogram-based analyzing system for determining Po is used. First, the ocular pressure was registered with the CLT method and compared with the Gold...

PURPOSE To explore whether alterations in intraocular pressure (IOP) affect vein pulsation properties using ophthalmodynamometric measures of vein pulsation pressure. PATIENTS AND METHODS Glaucoma patients had two retinal vein pulsation pressure (VPP) measurements from upper and lower hemiveins performed by ophthalmodynamometry at least 3 months apart. All subjects had VPP and IOP recorded at...

OBJECTIVE To determine regional pulsatile choroidal blood flow using laser interferometry in patients with active central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC). METHOD The study compared an equally sized age-, sex-, and refractive error-matched control group of healthy volunteers obtained from the Department of Clinical Pharmacology with 18 consecutive patients who had newly diagnosed active, unilat...