Reliability of different image analysis methods for scanning laser Doppler flowmetry

Current Eye Research

Volumn 33, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 493-499

  Kreis, Andreas J ^a   Nguyen, Thanh ^a   Rogers, Sophie ^a   Wang, Jie Jin ^a,b   Harazny, Joanna ^c   Michelson, Georg ^c   Omar Farouque, H M ^a   Wong, Tien Y ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

AFFPIA; Flowmetry; Image analysis; Reliability; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAPILLARY FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA BLOOD FLOW; RETINA CAPILLARY; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; TOPOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VOLUME; CAPILLARIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL VESSELS;

EID: 47349109350     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: 14602202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02713680802069149     Document Type: Article

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