The objective of this study is to observe effects of acupuncture and electro-acupuncture (EA) on blood perfusion in the stomach, and probe into the application of laser Doppler blood perfusion imaging technique in the study of the effect of acupuncture and moxibustion on the entrails. In the acupuncture group of 20 rats, acupuncture was given at "Zusanli" (ST 36) and in EA group of 18 rats, EA ...

PURPOSE The thermal effect of the intramyocardial blood perfusion on the size of lesions created by radiofrequency cardiac ablation (RFCA) has not been adequately studied to date. Our objective was to assess the impact of including this phenomenon in RFCA computer modelling in terms of the thermal lesion depth created. METHODS A computer model was built and computer simulations were conducted...

We used real-time LDI to study regional variations in microcirculatory perfusion in healthy candidates to establish a new methodology for global perfusion body mapping that is based on intra-individual perfusion index ratios. Our study included 74 (37 female) healthy volunteers aged between 22 and 30 years (mean 24.49). Imaging was performed using a recent microcirculation-imaging camera (EasyL...

The isolated perfused rat kidney experiment was introduced in 1959 for studying the regulation of renal blood flow and is recognized as a valuable preparation for studying physiological and biochemical aspects of renal function such as hemodynamics, glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and overall handling of fluids. Dose-response curves are obtained by injection of bolus doses of drugs into the pe...

Perfusion analysis computes blood flow parameters (blood volume, blood flow, mean transit time) from the observed flow of contrast agent, passing through the patient’s vascular system. Perfusion deconvolution has been widely accepted as the principal numerical tool for perfusion analysis, and is used routinely in clinical applications. This extensive use of perfusion in clinical decision-making...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Although blood pressure reduction has been postulated to result in a fall in cerebral perfusion pressure in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage, the latter is rarely measured. We assessed regional cerebral perfusion pressure in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage by using CT perfusion source data. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients with acute primary intracerebral hem...

To improve the performance of infrared face recognition for time-lapse data, a new construction of blood perfusion is proposed based on bio-heat transfer. Firstly, by quantifying the blood perfusion based on Pennes equation, the thermal information is converted into blood perfusion rate, which is stable facial biological feature of face image. Then, the separability discriminant criterion in Di...

Superficial blood perfusion was monitored using laser-Doppler perfusion imaging in connection with a phase III clinical trial comparing photodynamic therapy, utilizing topically applied delta-aminolevulinic acid, with cryotherapy of basal cell carcinomas. A total of 526 images were recorded before and immediately after the treatment and during the follow-up period. Before treatment, the lesions...

Efficient vascularization of skin tissue supports wound healing in response to injury. This includes elevated blood circulation, oxygenation, and perfusion. Cold physical plasma promotes animal models humans. Physical plasmas are multicomponent systems that generate several physicochemical effectors, such as ions, electrons, reactive oxygen nitrogen species, UV radiation. However, the consequen...