Image reconstruction of the corneal subbasal nerve plexus with extended field of view from focus image stacks of a confocal laser scanning microscope;Bildrekonstruktion des subbasalen Nervenplexus der Kornea mit erweitertem Bildfeld aus Fokusserien eines konfokalen Laser-Scanning-Mikroskops

Klinische Monatsblatter fur Augenheilkunde

Volumn 228, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1060-1066

  Kohler B ^a   Allgeier, S ^a   Eberle, F ^a   Guthoff, R ^b   Maier, S ^a   Stachs, O ^b   Zhivov, A ^b   Ziegler, D ^c,d   Bretthauer, G ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

cornea; image reconstruction; image registration; in vivo confocal microscopy; subbasal nerve plexus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CORNEA; CORNEAL SUBBASAL NERVE PLEXUS; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LASER MICROSCOPE; NERVE PLEXUS; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ADULT; CORNEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OPHTHALMIC NERVE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 83155190103     PISSN: 00232165     EISSN: 14393999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1281959     Document Type: Article

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