Achieving cellular resolution for in vivo retinal images of transgenic GFAP-GFP mice via image processing

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 8250-8262

  Kumar, S ^a   Ho, G ^a   Woo, K M ^a   Zhuo, L ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOENGINEERING AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; RATS;

CELLULAR RESOLUTION; HEIDELBERG RETINAL ANGIOGRAPH; RETINAL IMAGES;

IMAGE RESOLUTION;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ASTROCYTIC PROTEIN, MOUSE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; RETINA; RETINOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RETINA; RETINOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 44649188499     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.008250     Document Type: Article

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