Mapping the human blood-retinal barrier function

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 106-116

  Bernardes, Rui ^a,b,c,d   Dias, Jorge ^b,e   Cunha Vaz, José ^c,d,e,f,g  

^a ASSOCIATION FOR INNOVATION AND BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ON LIGHT AND IMAGE AIBILI   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^d AIBILI   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g CENTRO HOSPITALAR E UNIVERSITÁRIO DE COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Blood retinal barrier; Diagnosis; Fluorescein leakage; Functional imaging; Ophthalmology; Retinal mapping

Indexed keywords

CONFOCAL SCANNING LASER OPTHALMOSCOPE (CSLO); FLUORESCENCE LEAKAGE; HUMAN EYES; SIGNAL FILTERING;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DATA ACQUISITION; FLUORESCENCE; SCANNING;

BLOOD;

DYE; FLUORESCEIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD RETINA BARRIER; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIFFUSION; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; RETINA; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VITREOUS BODY;

ALGORITHMS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL VESSELS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 11244251727     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2004.839801     Document Type: Article

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