Intensive Care Medicine Experimental

Table 3 Results from contrast and sharpness analysis

From: Cytocam-IDF (incident dark field illumination) imaging for bedside monitoring of the microcirculation

	Modality	Contrast	Sharpness	Quality
Capillaries	SDF	0.04 ± 0.01	0.78 ± 0.06	0.03 ± 0.01
	Cytocam	0.99 ± 0.03	0.90 ± 0.05	0.09 ± 0.03
		p = 0.004*	p = 0.003*	p = 0.005*
Venules	SDF	0.07 ± 0.03	0.82 ± 0.07	0.06 ± 0.03
	Cytocam	0.12 ± 0.03	0.88 ± 0.05	0,11 ± 0.03
		p = 0.037*	p = 0.144*	p = 0.037*

*p < 0.05 is the cutoff value for statistical significance.

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