Sidestream dark field images of the microcirculation: Intra-observer reliability and correlation between two semi-quantitative methods for determining flow

BMC Medical Imaging

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Petersen, Sandra M ^a   Greisen, Gorm ^a   Hyttel Sorensen, Simon ^a   Hahn, Gitte H ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Microcirculation; Microvascular flow index; Perfused vessel density; Proportion of perfused vessels; Reliability; Sidestream dark field; Total vessel density; Videomicroscopy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; METHODOLOGY; MICROCIRCULATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SWINE; VIDEO MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; SWINE;

EID: 84901423285     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2342-14-14     Document Type: Article

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