What is it about?
Images of capillaries were obtained with the Vivascope 1500 (Lucid) and analyzed using the freeware ImageJ with a custom written macro plugin.
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Why is it important?
The parameters of the capillaries in vivo measured: area, perimeter, circularity and maximum diameter.
Perspectives
This new approach offers a considerable advantage compared with nailfold capillaroscopy and over histological analysis.
Professor Vladimir Hegyi
Institute of Clinical and Experimental Dermatovenereology
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This page is a summary of: Confocal laser-scanning capillaroscopy: a novel approach to the analysis of skin capillariesin vivo, Skin Research and Technology, November 2009, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0846.2009.00393.x.
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