Affiliations: Institute of Physiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Address for correspondence: D. Popivanov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physiology, Acad. G. Bonchev Str., Bl. 23, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria. Phone: (+359 2) 70 52 59; Fax: (+359 2) 719 109; E-mail: dapo@iph.bio.acad.bg.
Abstract: Methods for tracking the dynamics of the blood flow microcirculation obtained by laser-Doppler flowmetry (LDF) technique are described. It was shown that LDF signals have complex dynamics. It was mainly characterized by fractal structures and chaos, though multiperiodic, trend-like and stochastic components were also established. Procedures for (i) describing the dynamic structure and (ii) tracking the dynamic changes in time of LDF data are proposed. Examples illustrating the efficiency of these procedures are given using both simulated and LDF data collected in experiments with reactive hyperemia. Irrespective of the universality of the methods, the procedures should be specified according to the problem-oriented clinical and experimental studies.
