New insights into image processing of cortical blood flow monitors using laser speckle imaging

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 833-842

  Le, Thinh M ^a   Paul, Joseph S ^b   Al Nashash, H ^c   Tan, A ^a   Luft, A R ^d   Sheu, F S ^a   Ong, S H ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood flow and perfusion; Laser speckle imaging; Medical image processing; Subjective and objective quality; Time varying speckle

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; NEUROSURGERY; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SPECKLE; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

BLOOD FLOW AND PERFUSION; LASER SPECKLE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING; OBJECTIVE QUALITY; TIME-VARYING SPECKLE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FLOW KINETICS; HISTOLOGY; LASER; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASERS; MALE; PHOTOMETRY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 34249695001     PISSN: 02780062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMI.2007.892643     Document Type: Article

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