Imaging dermal blood flow through the intact rat skin with an optical clearing method

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Zhu, Dan ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Zhi, Zhongwei ^a   Wen, Xiang ^a   Luo, Qingming ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Dermal blood flow monitoring; Laser speckle contrast imaging; Optical clearing; Optical properties; Thiazone

Indexed keywords

BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW MONITORING; CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; INITIAL VALUES; INTEGRATING SPHERES; LASER SPECKLE CONTRAST IMAGING; NON-INVASIVE DETECTION; OPTICAL CLEARING; PEG-400; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; RAT SKIN; REDUCED SCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; SALINE SOLUTIONS; TEMPORAL CONTRAST; THIAZONE; TOPICAL TREATMENTS;

BLOOD; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MICROCIRCULATION; MIXTURES; RATS; SPECKLE; SPHERES;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

RATTUS;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; THIADIAZINE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DAZOMET; ELASTOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROCIRCULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; CONTRAST MEDIA; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; RATS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; THIADIAZINES;

EID: 77956647055     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3369739     Document Type: Article

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