Analysis of cross-sectional image filters for evaluating nonaveraged optical microangiography images

Applied Optics

Volumn , Issue 5, 2014, Pages 806-815

  Reif, Roberto ^a   Yousefi, Siavash ^a   Choi, Woo June ^a   Wang, Ruikang K ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ACQUISITION TIME; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; CROSS SECTIONAL IMAGE; FACE PROJECTIONS; MICRO-ANGIOGRAPHY; SPECTRAL DOMAINS; SWEPT SOURCE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHIES; WEIGHTED AVERAGES;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ALGORITHM; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EAR; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MOUSE; NUDE MOUSE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VASCULARIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; EAR; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICE; MICE, NUDE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84964315888     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.53.000806     Document Type: Article

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