An easy and inexpensive method for quantitative analysis of endothelial damage by using vital dye staining and adobe photoshop software

Cornea

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 818-824

  Saad, Hisham A ^a,b   Terry, Mark A ^a,c,d   Shamie, Neda ^a   Chen, Edwin S ^a   Friend, Daniel F ^c   Holiman, Jeffrey D ^d   Stoeger, Christopher ^d  

^a DEVERS EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b TANTA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c Lions Vision Research Laboratory of Oregon   (United States)

^d Lions Eye Bank of Oregon   (United States)

Author keywords

Adobe Photoshop; Alizarin red S; Cornea; Deep lamellar endothelial keratoplasty; Descemet stripping endothelial keratoplasty; Endothelial damage; Endothelial keratoplasty; Quantitative assessment; Trypan blue; Vital dye staining

Indexed keywords

ALIZARIN RED S; TRYPAN BLUE; ANTHRAQUINONE DERIVATIVE; COLORING AGENT;

ARTICLE; CADAVER; CELL DAMAGE; CELL LOSS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; ENDOTHELIUM LESION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; KERATOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STAINING; CELL SURVIVAL; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; TRANSPLANTATION;

ANTHRAQUINONES; CELL SURVIVAL; COLORING AGENTS; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHOTOGRAPHY; STAINING AND LABELING; TRYPAN BLUE;

EID: 49849102011     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e3181705ca2     Document Type: Article

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