Cryoscopy: A novel enhancing method of in vivo skin imaging

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 377-384

  Nikkels, Arjen F ^a   Piérard, Gérald E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cryogen cooling; Cryoscopy; Skin capacitance imaging; Stratum corneum

Indexed keywords

DERMATOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; TUMORS; VISUALIZATION;

CRYOGEN COOLING; CRYOSCOPY; SKIN CAPACITANCE IMAGING; STRATUM CORNEUM;

SKIN;

CARBON DIOXIDE; DIMETHYL ETHER; LIQUID NITROGEN; PROPANE;

ACTINIC KERATOSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CALLOSITY; CONDYLOMA; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CRYOSCOPY; DERMATOFIBROMA; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ERYTHEMA; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FROZEN SECTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; LOW TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; SEBORRHEIC KERATOSIS; SKIN COLOR; SKIN EXAMINATION; SKIN HEMANGIOMA; SKIN PAIN; STRATUM CORNEUM;

ADULT; COLOR; DERMATITIS, SEBORRHEIC; DERMOSCOPY; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; FREEZING; HISTIOCYTOMA, BENIGN FIBROUS; HUMANS; KERATOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEVUS; NITROGEN; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34848852010     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: 16000846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0846.2007.00240.x     Document Type: Article

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