Super-resolution spectral estimation of optical micro-angiography for quantifying blood flow within microcirculatory tissue beds in vivo

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1214-1228

  Yousefi, Siavash ^a   Qin, Jia ^a   Wang, Ruikang K ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

(170.3880) Medical and biological imaging; (170.4500) Optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

HEMODYNAMICS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MICROCIRCULATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALIASING PROBLEMS; FLOW QUANTIFICATION; IN-VIVO MEASUREMENT; LARGE BLOOD VESSELS; MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL IMAGING; PHASE INFORMATION; SPECTRAL ESTIMATION; SPECTRAL ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; LIGHT INTENSITY; MALE; MICROANGIOGRAPHY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL MICROANGIOGRAPHY; POLARIZATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84896915282     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.4.001214     Document Type: Article

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