Anisotropic processing of laser speckle images improves spatiotemporal resolution

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1272-1280

  Rege, Abhishek ^a   Senarathna, Janaka ^a   Li, Nan ^a   Thakor, Nitish V ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood flow; brain vasculature; laser speckle contrast imaging; microvessel imaging

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC PROCESSING; BLOOD FLOW; FULL-FIELD; FUNCTIONAL CHANGES; HEART RATES; INTRAVASCULAR; LASER SPECKLE; LASER SPECKLE CONTRAST IMAGING; OPTICAL IMAGING TECHNIQUE; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; RAPID CHANGES; RAW IMAGES; SPATIAL NEIGHBORHOODS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL PROCESSING; SPATIO-TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; VASCULATURE;

ANISOTROPY; IMAGE QUALITY; PIXELS;

HEMODYNAMICS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING; LASER SPECKLE CONTRAST IMAGING; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; RAT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASERS, GAS; MICROVESSELS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 84860352709     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2183675     Document Type: Article

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