Geometrical capillary network analysis

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 312-320

  Sainthillier, Jean Marie ^a,b   Degouy, Arnaud ^a   Gharbi, Tijani ^b   Pieralli, Christian ^b   Humbert, Philippe ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF BESANÇON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^c HÔPITAL SAINT JACQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Capillary density; Computer assisted; Image processing; Videomicroscopy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CAPILLAROSCOPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DEVICE; DYNAMICS; GEOMETRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING; MICROSCOPY; MICROVASCULATURE; MORPHOLOGY; NOISE; SCALP; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN CAPILLARY; STATISTICS; VIDEORECORDING;

CAPILLARIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROCIRCULATION; SKIN;

EID: 0242437803     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0846.2003.00037.x     Document Type: Article

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