Thermal parametric imaging in the evaluation of skin burn depth

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 303-312

  Rumiński, Jacek ^a   Kaczmarek, Mariusz ^a   Renkielska, Alicja ^b   Nowakowski, Antoni ^a  

^a GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Active dynamic IR thermal imaging; Burn depth; Parametric imaging

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SURGERY;

ACTIVE-DYNAMIC IR THERMAL IMAGING; BURN DEPTH; PARAMETRIC IMAGING;

INFRARED IMAGING;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BURN; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFRARED PHOTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PHANTOM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; BURNS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; HUMANS; INFRARED RAYS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SWINE; THERMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33846657194     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2006.886607     Document Type: Article

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