Determination of red blood cell velocity by video shuttering and image analysis

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 313-325

  Parthasarathi, Anand A ^a   Japee, Shruti A ^a   Pittman, Roland N ^b  

^a Virginia Commonwealth University   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluorescence; Microscopy; RBC flow conservation; RBC velocity profiles; Single RBC tracking

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; FLUORESCENT DYE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CELL MOTION; ERYTHROCYTE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HAMSTER; IMAGE PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CELL MOVEMENT; CRICETINAE; ERYTHROCYTES; FLUORESCEIN-5-ISOTHIOCYANATE; FLUORESCENT DYES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO;

EID: 0033129689     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1114/1.144     Document Type: Article

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