Photoplethysmography
"Photoplethysmography" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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.
| Descriptor ID |
D017156
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.370.610.600 E01.370.610.600
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| Concept/Terms |
Photoplethysmography- Photoplethysmography
- Photoplethysmographies
- Light Reflection Rheography
- Photoreflexometry
- Photoreflexometries
- Rheography, Light Reflection
- Light Reflection Rheographies
- Rheographies, Light Reflection
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