Measuring contraction propagation and localizing pacemaker cells using high speed video microscopy

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Akl, Tony J ^a   Nepiyushchikh, Zhanna V ^b   Gashev, Anatoliy A ^b   Zawieja, David C ^b   Coté, Gerard L ^a  

^a Texas A M University   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Contractile wave; Contraction; Edge detection; Lymph; Pacemaker

Indexed keywords

A-FRAMES; AUTOMATED ALGORITHMS; CONTRACTILE WAVE; CONTRACTION FREQUENCY; FRAMES PER SECONDS; HIGH-SPEED VIDEO; LYMPH; LYMPHATIC VESSELS; MANUAL TRACKING; PROPAGATION VELOCITIES; SEMI-AUTOMATED; SIMULATION RESULT; USER INTERVENTION; WAVE PROPAGATION VELOCITIES;

ALGORITHMS; BODY FLUIDS; EDGE DETECTION; PACEMAKERS; VELOCITY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

HIGH SPEED CAMERAS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; CYTOLOGY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LYMPH VESSEL; MICROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; PULSATILE FLOW; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LYMPHATIC VESSELS; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; PULSATILE FLOW; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79957841235     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3544512     Document Type: Article

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