Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, Volume. 7, Issue 3, 1450015(2014)
Monitoring of rhythms in laser speckle data
Accepted 15 November 2013 Published 2 January 2014 While the laser speckle imaging (LSI) is a powerful tool for multiple biomedical applications, such as monitoring of the blood flow, in many cases it can provide additional information when combined with spatio-temporal rhythm analysis. We demonstrate the application of Graphics Processing Units (GPU)-based rhythm analysis for the post processing of LSI data, discuss the relevant structure of GPU-based computations, test the proposed technique on surrogate 3D data, and apply this approach to kidney blood flow autoregulation. Experiments with surrogate data demonstrate the ability of the method to extract information about oscillation patterns from noisy data, as well as to detect the moving source of the rhythm. The analysis of kidney data allow us to detect and to localize the dynamics arising from autoregulation processes at the level of individual nephrons (tubuloglomerular feedback (TGF) rhythm), as well as to distinguish between the TGF-active and the TGF-silent zones.
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D. E. Postnov, A. Y. Neganova, D. D. Postnov, A. R. Brazhe. Monitoring of rhythms in laser speckle data[J]. Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences, 2014, 7(3): 1450015
Received: Jul. 15, 2013
Accepted: Nov. 15, 2013
Published Online: Jan. 10, 2019
The Author Email: Postnov D. E. (postnov@info.sgu.ru)