Accurate measurement of blood vessel depth in port wine stained human skin in vivo using pulsed photothermal radiometry

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 961-966

  Li, Bincheng ^a,b   Majaron, Boris ^a,c   Viator, John A ^a,d   Milner, Thomas E ^e   Chen, Zhongping ^a   Zhao, Yonghua ^a,f   Ren, Hongwu ^a   Nelson, J Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND ELECTRONICS   (China)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^d OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^f CARL ZEISS SMT AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Optical Dopler tomography; Photothermal profiling; Port wine stain; Pulsed photothermal radiometry; Two wavelength excitation

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL DOPPLER TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOTHERMAL PROFILING; PORT WINE STAIN; PULSED PHOTOTHERMAL RADIOMETRY; TWO WAVELENGTH EXCITATION;

BLOOD VESSELS; RADIOMETRY; SKIN; TOMOGRAPHY;

PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NEVUS FLAMMEUS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; THERMOGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD VESSELS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIGHT; PORT-WINE STAIN; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; THERMOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 14744269243     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1784470     Document Type: Article

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