Analysis of pressurized resistance vessel diameter changes with a low cost digital image processing device

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 23-30

  Fischer, Jörg Gerald ^a   Mewes, Hartmut ^a   Hopp, Hans Heinrich ^a   Schubert, Rudolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Image processing; Pressurized vessel; Vessel diameter; Video microscopy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD VESSELS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING; PRESSURIZED RESISTANCE VESSELS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE MS EXCEL; SOFTWARE PACKAGE MS WINDOWS; VESSEL DIAMETERS; VIDEO MICROSCOPY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADENOSINE; NORADRENALIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIGITAL COMPUTER; IMAGE PROCESSING; ONLINE SYSTEM; RESISTANCE BLOOD VESSEL;

EID: 0030175078     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0169-2607(96)01726-9     Document Type: Article

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