Infrared Imaging of Subcutaneous Veins

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 56-61

  Zharov, Vladimir P ^a   Ferguson, Scott ^a   Eidt, John F ^a   Howard, Paul C ^b   Fink, Louis M ^c   Waner, Milton ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^c CENTRAL ARKANSAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d ARKANSAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Infrared imaging; Subcutaneous veins; Vascular pathology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAMERA; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIODE LASER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE QUALITY; INFRARED PHOTOGRAPHY; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; NEODYMIUM LASER; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN VEIN; VARICOSIS; VASCULAR ACCESS; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR SURGERY; VEIN; VIRTUAL REALITY;

FOREARM; HUMANS; INFRARED RAYS; LASERS; SKIN; VARICOSE VEINS; VEINS;

EID: 0345871396     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.10248     Document Type: Article

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