Liver microcirculation analysis by red blood cell motion modeling in intravital microscopy images

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 162-170

  Kamoun, Walid S ^a   Schmugge, Stephen J ^a   Kraftchick, Jerrod P ^a   Clemens, Mark G ^b   Shin, Min C ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Intravital microscopy; Red blood cells (RBCs); Template matching; Tracking

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; MICROCIRCULATION; MOTION ESTIMATION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

BLOOD FLOW; INTRAVITAL MICROSCOPY; MEAN VELOCITY; RED BLOOD CELLS (RBC);

CYTOLOGY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE DEFORMABILITY; ERYTHROCYTE KINETICS; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAVITAL MICROSCOPY; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; ERYTHROCYTES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIVER CIRCULATION; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; RATS;

EID: 37349052833     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.910670     Document Type: Article

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