A comparison of the quality of image acquisition between the incident dark field and sidestream dark field video-microscopes

BMC Medical Imaging

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Gilbert Kawai, Edward ^a   Coppel, Jonny ^a   Bountziouka, Vassiliki ^b   Ince, Can ^c   Martin, Daniel ^a,d   Ahuja, V ^d   Aref Adib, G ^d   Burnham, R ^d   Chisholm, A ^d   Clarke, K ^d   Coates, D ^d   Coates, M ^d   Cook, D ^d   Cox, M ^d   Dhillon, S ^d   Dougall, C ^d   Doyle, P ^d   Duncan, P ^d   Edsell, M ^d   Edwards, L ^d   Evans, L ^d   Gardiner, P ^d   Grocott, M ^d   Gunning, P ^d   Hart, N ^d   Harrington, J ^d   Harvey, J ^d   Holloway, C ^d   Howard, D ^d   Hurlbut, D ^d   Imray, C ^d   Ince, C ^d   Jonas, M ^d   van der Kaaij, J ^d   Khosravi, M ^d   Kolfschoten, N ^d   Levett, D ^d   Luery, H ^d   Luks, A ^d   Martin, D ^d   McMorrow, R ^d   Meale, P ^d   Mitchell, K ^d   Montgomery, H ^d   Morgan, G ^d   Morgan, J ^d   Murray, A ^d   Mythen, M ^d   Newman, S ^d   O'Dwyer, M ^d   Pate, J ^d   Plant, T ^d   Pun, M ^d   Richards, P ^d   Richardson, A ^d   Rodway, G ^d   Simpson, J ^d   Stroud, C ^d   Stroud, M ^d   Stygal, J ^d   Symons, B ^d   Szawarski, P ^d   Van Tulleken, A ^d   Van Tulleken, C ^d   Vercueil, A ^d   Wandrag, L ^d   Wilson, M ^d   Windsor, J ^d   more..

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Capillary; Microcirculation; Microscopy; Validation

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROCIRCULATION; PROCEDURES; TONGUE; VASCULARIZATION; VIDEO MICROSCOPY;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; TONGUE;

EID: 84955511199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12880-015-0078-8     Document Type: Article

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