Real-time blood flow visualization using the graphics processing unit

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Yang, Owen ^a,b   Cuccia, David ^c   Choi, Bernard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^c Modulated Imaging Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

digital imaging; digital processing; image processing; real time imaging; speckle; speckle interferometry

Indexed keywords

BLOOD FLOW; COMPUTE UNIFIED DEVICE ARCHITECTURES; DIGITAL IMAGING; DIGITAL PROCESSING; FLOW INDICES; FLUID FLOW; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; HIGH RESOLUTION; IMAGE-PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; IN-VITRO; LABVIEW; LABVIEW VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT; LASER SPECKLE; LASER SPECKLE IMAGING; NOVEL ALGORITHM; OPTICAL SCATTERERS; PORT WINE STAINS; REACTIVE HYPEREMIA; REAL-TIME IMAGING; REALTIME FLOWS; RED BLOOD CELL; SPECKLE IMAGES; SPECKLE INTERFEROMETRY; SPECKLE PATTERNS;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CCD CAMERAS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HEMODYNAMICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTEGRATION; LASER SURGERY; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SPECKLE; WINE;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ARTERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLOW KINETICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ARTERIES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; RHEOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 79955958460     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3528610     Document Type: Article

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