Improvement of Sidestream Dark Field Imaging with an Image Acquisition Stabilizer

BMC Medical Imaging

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Balestra, Gianmarco M ^a,b   Bezemer, Rick ^a,c   Boerma, E Christiaan ^a,d   Yong, Ze Yie ^a   Sjauw, Krishan D ^a   Engstrom, Annemarie E ^a   Koopmans, Matty ^d   Ince, Can ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d MEDICAL CENTER LEEUWARDEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLOW KINETICS; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 77954391634     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2342-10-15     Document Type: Article

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