Measurement of photoacoustic signals from skin: Potential application to burn depth estimation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4434, Issue , 2001, Pages 8-12

  Sato, Shunichi ^a   Shimada, Tomoaki ^b   Arai, Tsunenori ^a,b   Kikuchi, Makoto ^a   Obara, Minoru ^b   Ashida, Hiroshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Burn depth estimation; Photoacoustic signal; Piezoelectric transducer; Rat burn model

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACOUSTIC WAVES; BLOOD; DIAGNOSIS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; SKIN; TISSUE;

BURN DEPTH ESTIMATION; PHOTOACOUSTIC SIGNALS;

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

EID: 0035760191     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.446677     Document Type: Article

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