High-resolution imaging of microvasculature in human skin in-vivo with optical coherence tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 7694-7705

  Liu, Gangjun ^a,b   Jia, Wangcun ^a   Sun, Victor ^a   Choi, Bernard ^a,b   Chen, Zhongping ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW RATE; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

BEAM SCANNING; BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL MEASUREMENTS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DOPPLER VARIANCE; FLOW PHANTOM; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; HUMAN SKIN; IN-VIVO; INTENSITY-BASED; LASER SPECKLE IMAGING; MICRO-VASCULATURE; SCAN DIRECTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION; TIME INTERVAL; VASCULAR NETWORK;

HEMODYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROVASCULATURE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SKIN; VASCULARIZATION;

DERMOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MICROVESSELS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SKIN; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84859402766     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.007694     Document Type: Article

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