Temporal statistical analysis of laser speckle images and its application to retinal blood-flow imaging

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 10214-10219

  Cheng, Haiying ^a   Yan, Yumei ^a   Duong, Timothy Q ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LSI CIRCUITS; SPECKLE;

BLOOD FLOW; ENSEMBLE AVERAGES; FLOW PHANTOM; ITS APPLICATIONS; LASER SPECKLE; RETINAL BLOOD FLOW; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIAL STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RAT; RETINA; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; TIME; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LASERS; RATS; RETINA; RETINAL VESSELS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 47249143306     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.010214     Document Type: Article

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