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Diagnosis > Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures > Diagnostic Techniques, Cardiovascular > Plethysmography > Photoplethysmography

Preferred term

Photoplethysmography  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Light Reflection Rheographies
  • Light Reflection Rheography
  • Photoreflexometries
  • Photoreflexometry
  • Rheographies, Light Reflection
  • Rheography, Light Reflection

Scope note

  • Plethysmographic determination in which the intensity of light reflected from the skin surface and the red cells below is measured to determine the blood volume of the respective area. There are two types, transmission and reflectance.

History note

  • 93

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D017156

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