Fast imaging system and algorithm for monitoring microlymphatics

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7572, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Akl, T ^a   Rahbar, E ^a   Zawieja, D ^b   Gashev, A ^b   Moore, J ^a   Cote G ^a  

^a Texas A M University   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Contractile activity; Cross correlation; Digital microscopy; Flow; In situ; Lymph; Outlier removal; Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV); Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV); Shear stress

Indexed keywords

CROSS CORRELATIONS; DIGITAL MICROSCOPY; IN-SITU; LYMPH; PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRIES; PARTICLE TRACKING VELOCIMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; BODY FLUIDS; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; LEAD; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PARTICLE BEAM TRACKING; SHEAR STRESS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TRACKING (POSITION); VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 77951748522     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.842579     Document Type: Conference Paper

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