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Measurement Techniques

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In this chapter, the ways in which cerebral autoregulation can be assessed through measurements of physiological parameters will be presented. The first work in this area dates from the 1940s and the following decades have seen very substantial progress made in the accuracy and repeatability of clinical measurement techniques in a variety of forms, leading towards very rich sources of data.

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Payne, S. (2016). Measurement Techniques. In: Cerebral Autoregulation. SpringerBriefs in Bioengineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31784-7_2

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