Red blood cell velocity measurements of complete capillary in finger nail-fold using optical flow estimation

Microvascular Research

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 319-324

  Wu, Chih Chieh ^a   Zhang, Geoffrey ^b   Huang, Tzung Chi ^c   Lin, Kang Ping ^a  

^a CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cross correlation; Image registration; Optical flow; Red blood cell (RBC) velocity; Skeleton extraction

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTERIOLE; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAMERA; CAPILLARY FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE KINETICS; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROCIRCULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; VENULE; VOLUNTEER;

ALGORITHMS; ARTERIOLES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAPILLARIES; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPIC ANGIOSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; NAILS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VENULES;

EID: 71549160311     PISSN: 00262862     EISSN: 10959319     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2009.07.002     Document Type: Article

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