Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is a powerful noninvasive tool with which to study the
matching of oxygen delivery to oxygen utilization and the number of new publications …

Reactive hyperemia is a well-established technique for noninvasive assessment of
peripheral microvascular function and a predictor of all-cause and cardiovascular morbidity …

The plateau effect in training is a significant obstacle for professional athletes and average
subjects. It evolves from both the muscle-nerve-axis-associated performance and various …

There is a growing interest in monitoring muscle oxygen saturation (SmO2), which is a
localized measure of muscle oxidative metabolism and can be acquired continuously and …

The process of matching skeletal muscle blood flow to metabolism is complex and multi-
factorial. In response to exercise, increases in cardiac output, perfusion pressure and local …

This study compared the brachial artery blood flow (Q̇ BA) and microvascular oxygen
delivery responses during handgrip exercise above vs. below critical force (CF; the isometric …

Key points The heavy‐to‐severe intensity exercise threshold (ie critical force) distinguishes
between steady‐state and progressive metabolic and neuromuscular responses to exercise …

In a single bout maximal effort isometric forearm handgrip exercise test (maximal effort
exercise test, MXT), contraction impulse exhibits exponential decay to an asymptote …

In the last 20 yr, near-infrared diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) has been developed
for providing a noninvasive estimate of microvascular blood flow (BF) as a BF index (BFi) in …

Near-infrared diffuse correlation spectroscopy (NIR-DCS) is an optical imaging technique for
measuring relative changes in skeletal muscle microvascular perfusion (ie, fold change …