Wavelength dependence of the apparent diameter of retinal blood vessels

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1831-1837

  Park, Robert ^a   Twietmeyer, Karen ^b   Chipman, Russell ^b   Beaudry, Neil ^b   Salyer, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BLOOD VESSELS; CURVE FITTING; DISEASES; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PATIENT MONITORING;

GAUSSIAN CURVE FITTING; HYPERTENSION; RETINAL BLOOD VESSELS; RETINAL IMAGE QUALITY;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; EVALUATION; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IN VITRO STUDY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SWINE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL VESSELS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SWINE;

EID: 16644367765     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.001831     Document Type: Conference Paper

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