A fully automated approach to quantitatively determine thickness of tissue-engineered cell sheets

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1348-1357

  Lacroix, Jeffrey T ^a   Xia, Jinjun ^b   Haidekker, Mark A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b University of Georgia   (United States)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Image processing; Optical coherence tomography; Tissue engineering; Tissue scattering; Tissue sheet

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED APPROACH; BACKSCATTERED LIGHT; BRIGHT-FIELD MICROSCOPY; CELL SHEET; CONFOCAL SCANNING; ENGINEERED PRODUCTS; ENGINEERED TISSUES; HEART VALVES; HIGH RESOLUTION; IMAGE FORMATIONS; IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHM; IMAGING METHOD; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POTENTIAL DEFECTS; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SHEET THICKNESS; TEST OBJECT; TISSUE SHEET; TISSUE SHEETS; TISSUE THICKNESS; VASCULAR GRAFTS; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

CELL MEMBRANES; COHERENT LIGHT; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DEFECTS; ENGINEERING; GRAFTS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; SCANNING; SCATTERING; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CELL CULTURE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHMS; CELLS, CULTURED; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 67650441510     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-009-9694-1     Document Type: Article

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