Laser speckle contrast imaging: Multifractal analysis of data recorded in healthy subjects

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 5849-5856

  Humeau Heurtier, Anne ^a   Mahé, Guillaume ^a   Durand, Sylvain ^b   Henrion, Daniel ^a   Abraham, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU MAINE   (France)

Author keywords

laser Doppler flowmetry; laser speckle contrast imaging; microcirculation; multifractal spectrum

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFIERS; DATA HANDLING; DOPPLER EFFECT; FLOW MEASUREMENT; FLOWMETERS; FRACTALS; MICROCIRCULATION; PIXELS;

LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LASER SPECKLE CONTRAST; LASER SPECKLE CONTRAST IMAGING; LASER-BASED TECHNIQUES; MULTI-FRACTAL PROPERTY; MULTI-FRACTAL SPECTRUM; MULTIFRACTAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS;

SPECKLE;

EID: 84867314524     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4748506     Document Type: Article

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