Bilateral difference in superficial and deep femoral artery blood flow

REFERENCES Young, physically inactive, healthy volunteers (10 females, 5 males; age 21.2 ± 2.6 years) participated in this study. During rest conditions beat-per-beat arterial pressure (MAP), heart rate (HR), blood velocity (TAM), and artery diameter (D) were registered from SFA and DFA in the left and right leg with ultrasound Doppler (fig.1). During experiment B-mode and Doppler mode were switched intermittently, 3 seconds and 10 seconds respectively. All ultrasound video output were captured (25 fps; 640x480) with DVI grabber (DVI2USB Epiphan Systems Inc.) connected to PC, onfly compressed and stored to AVI file, (VirtualDub, Free Software Foundation, Inc. & MPEG4 encoder, Microsoft) for further off-line analyses. METHODS INTRODUCTION