Wavelet-analysis of skin temperature oscillations during local heating for revealing endothelial dysfunction

• Published in: Microvascular research Vol. 97; pp. 109 - 114
• Main Authors: Podtaev, Sergey, Stepanov, Rodion, Smirnova, Elena, Loran, Evgenia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.01.2015
• Subjects: Adult; Blood Flow Velocity; Case-Control Studies; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - complications; Diabetic Angiopathies - diagnosis; Diabetic Angiopathies - etiology; Diabetic Angiopathies - physiopathology; Endothelial dysfunction; Endothelium, Vascular - physiopathology; Female; Heating; Hot Temperature; Humans; Local heating test; Male; Microcirculation; Microvessels - physiopathology; Middle Aged; Oscillometry; Regional Blood Flow; Skin - blood supply; Skin blood flow; Skin Temperature; Skin temperature fluctuations; Thermography - methods; Time Factors; Type 2 diabetes; Wavelet Analysis; Skin temperature fluctuations; Local heating test; Type 2 diabetes; Endothelial dysfunction; Wavelet analysis; Skin blood flow

Skin microvessels have proven to be a model to investigate the mechanisms of vascular disease; in particular, endothelial dysfunction. To analyze skin blood flow, high-resolution thermometry can be used because low-amplitude skin temperature oscillations are caused by changes in the tone of skin ves...