Single particle tracking across sequences of microscopical images: Application to platelet adhesion under flow

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 833-846

  MacHin, Marianna ^a   Santomaso, Andrea ^a   Mazzucato, Mario ^b   Cozzi, Maria Rita ^b   Battiston, Monica ^b   De Marco, Luigi ^b   Canu, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b CENTRO DI RIFERIMENTO ONCOLOGICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fluorescence microscopy; Gaussian distribution; Image analysis; Image simulation; Perfusion chamber; Platelets

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE SIMULATION; PERFUSION CHAMBER; PLATELETS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CELL CULTURE; CELL MOTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE ADHESIVENESS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PLATELETS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL MOVEMENT; CELLS, CULTURED; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; PLATELET ADHESIVENESS;

EID: 33744768636     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-006-9086-8     Document Type: Article

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