Monitoring bruise age using visible diffuse reflectance spectroscopy

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6434, Issue , 2007, Pages

  McMurdy, John W ^a   Duffy, Susan ^b   Crawford, Gregory P ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HASBRO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilirubin; Child abuse; Contusions; Forensics; Hemoglobin; Pediatric emergency medicine; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSEL RUPTURE; PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE; REFLECTION SPECTRA;

BLOOD VESSELS; COLOR; HEMOGLOBIN; LIGHT REFLECTION; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY;

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EID: 34247350467     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.701592     Document Type: Conference Paper

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