High-resolution optical coherence tomography as a non-destructive monitoring tool for the engineering of skin equivalents

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 261-267

  Spöler, Felix ^a   Forst M ^a   Marquardt, Y ^b   Hoeller, D ^b   Kurz, H ^a   Merk, H ^b   Abuzahra, F ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Basement membrane zone; Optical coherence tomography; Skin equivalents; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT MEMBRANE ZONE; HIGH RESOLUTION MONITORING; NON-DESTRUCTIVE TISSUE IMAGING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SKIN EQUIVALENTS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; TRANSPLANTATION (SURGICAL);

SKIN;

ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DERMIS; EPIDERMIS; GOLD STANDARD; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERATINOCYTE; LUMINESCENCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PROCESS MONITORING; QUALITY CONTROL; SKIN GRAFT; SKIN STRUCTURE; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; STRATUM CORNEUM; TISSUE CULTURE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; WOUND HEALING;

BASEMENT MEMBRANE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CELLS, CULTURED; DERMIS; EPIDERMIS; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; MALE; SKIN, ARTIFICIAL; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 33745702120     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: 16000846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0909-752X.2006.00163.x     Document Type: Article

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