Transport in lymphatic capillaries. II. Microscopic velocity measurement with fluorescence photobleaching

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 270, Issue 1 39-1, 1996, Pages

  Berk, David A ^b   Swartz, Melody A ^b   Leu, Anders J ^b   Jain, Rakesh K ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

dextran; fluorescence microlymphography; fluorescence recovery after photobleaching; image processing; microsphere; mouse; skin lymphatics; spatial Fourier transform

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE DEXTRAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLEACHING; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LYMPH FLOW; LYMPHOGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MICROCIRCULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CAPILLARY; VELOCITY;

EID: 0030040196     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.1996.270.1.h330     Document Type: Article

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