Digital image processing for biocompatibility studies of clinical implant materials

Artificial Organs

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 444-446

  Alves, Sdnei De Brito ^a   De Queiroz, Alvaro Antonio Alencar ^a   Higa, Olga Zazuco ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ITAJUBÁ   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO DE PESQUISAS ENERGÉTICAS E NUCLEARES   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biomaterials; Blood platelets; Computer vision; Image analysis; Prosthetic devices; Scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; COMPUTER VISION; DIGITAL DEVICES; ETHYLENE; PLATELETS; POLYMERIC IMPLANTS; POLYVINYL CHLORIDES;

BLOOD PLATELETS; IMAGE-ANALYSIS; IMPLANT MATERIALS; PLATELET ACTIVATION; PLATELETS ADHESIONS; POLY(VINYL CHLORIDE); POLYMERIC SURFACES; PROSTHETIC DEVICES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY IMAGE; WHOLE BLOOD;

SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

POLYETHYLENE; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE; POLYVINYLCHLORIDE;

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; COMPUTER; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGING; IMPLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; THROMBOCYTE ADHESION;

EID: 0038065430     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1594.2003.07246.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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