Automated method for tracking vast numbers of FITC-labeled RBCs in microvessels of rat brain in vivo using a high-speed confocal microscope system

Microcirculation

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 163-174

  Tomita, Minoru ^a   Osada, Takashi ^a   Schiszler, Istvan ^a   Tomita, Yutaka ^b   Unekawa, Miyuki ^a   Toriumi, Haruki ^a   Tanahashi, Norio ^c   Suzuki, Norihiro ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Institute of Brain and Blood VesselsMihara Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

^c SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Capillary flow; Cerebral cortex; Confocal microscope; Cranial window; Rat; RBC velocity distribution

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE DEXTRAN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN CORTEX; CAPILLARY FLOW; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VELOCITY; VIDEORECORDER; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN-5-ISOTHIOCYANATE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOFTWARE;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 38949213983     PISSN: 10739688     EISSN: 15498719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10739680701567089     Document Type: Article

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