Recording of microvascular dimensions with an image-splitter television microscope.
Recording of microvascular dimensions with an image-splitter television microscope.
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用图像分割电视显微镜记录微血管尺寸。
DOI:
10.1152/jappl.1966.21.1.299
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发表时间:
1966
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
S. Báez
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作者:
S. Báez
BAEZ, SILVIO. Recording of microvascular dimensions with an image splitter television microscope. J. Appl. Physiol. 2 I (I): 2gg-30’. 1966.-A system has been developed for the accurate and rapid analogue recording of microvessel dimension changes. An image-splitter eyepiece shears the vascular image projected on the video screen of a television microscope. The output of a sensitive potentiometer incorporated in the micrometer of the splitter accurately registers on a polygraph the amount of image shearing. The system permits evaluation of the mechanical and dynamic characteristics of the microvessels in isolated tissues and the intact vascular bed. micrometric measurements; capillary; microvessel dimension recording; microcirculationEvaluation OF the mechanical properties underlying the separate activity of microvessel components of the microcirculatory pattern demands I) continuous or rapid sequential recording of the microvascular events and 2) accuracy in the quantitation of changes in vascular dimensions. Continuous recording of such changes was recently accomplished, using analogue computation from the video signal in the TV microscope (5). However, the reported standard error of f 3.7~ 1 when the system is calibrated against static objects (glass capillaries) renders it less accurate than the classic method of micrometric measurements with stage-calibrated ocular micrometers, particularly when dealing with smaller muscular microarterial vessels in mammals. On the other hand, precision in the measurement of a microscopic image can be provided by the application to the microscope of the image-splitting principle (2). This optical system allows for the formation of a double image of an object in which the image, sheared by a controlled amount, is viewed through the monocular eyepiece. Such measurements can provide an “accuracy better by a factor of IO or more than the resolving power of the optical system”(3).