Data on microcirculatory perfusion dips in the resting nail bed.
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SUBMITTER: Mirdell R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6231364 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
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Data on microcirculatory perfusion dips in the resting nail bed.
Mirdell Robin R Lemstra-Idsardi Aukje Nienke AN Farnebo Simon S Tesselaar Erik E
Data in brief 20181027
This article contains the raw data from the article entitled: "The presence of synchronized perfusion dips in the microcirculation of the resting nail bed" Mirdell et al. (in press). A laser speckle contrast imager (LSCI) was used to make a total of 21 recordings of the perfusion in the resting nail bed of 10 healthy test subjects. The first 10 recordings were acquired after 5 min of acclimatization. An additional 10 recordings were acquired in the same test subjects, after 20 min of acclimatiza ...[more]
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