Confocal laser-scanning capillaroscopy: A novel approach to the analysis of skin capillaries in vivo

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 476-481

  Hegyi, J ^a   Hegyi, V ^b   Messer, G ^a   Arenberger, P ^c   Ruzicka, T ^a   Berking, C ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Capillaroscopy; Capillary; Confocal microscopy; ImageJ

Indexed keywords

CAPILLAROSCOPY; CAPILLARY; CELLULAR STRUCTURE; DERMAL PAPILLA; FIXATION ARTIFACT; HISTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; IMAGEJ; IN-VIVO; LASER SCANNING; LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; MULTIPLE MEASUREMENTS; NEW APPROACHES; NON-INVASIVE; PLUG-INS; PRECISE ANALYSIS; PROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SIZE AND SHAPE; STANDARD CONDITIONS; STANDARD SETTING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME OF DAY; VASCULATURE;

CAPILLARITY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; LASER DIAGNOSTICS; LASERS; SCANNING;

SKIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; BODY POSITION; BODY REGIONS; CAPILLAROSCOPY; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSORIASIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL; SKIN CAPILLARY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DERMIS; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPIC ANGIOSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; PSORIASIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350749302     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: 16000846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0846.2009.00393.x     Document Type: Article

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