Diffuse reflection imaging of sub-epidermal tissue haematocrit using a simple RGB camera

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6535, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Leahy, Martin J ^a   O'Doherty, Jim ^a   McNamara, Paul ^a   Henricson, Joakim ^b   Nilsson, Gert E ^c,d   Anderson, Chris ^b   Sjoberg, Folke ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d WheelsBridge AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy; Inflammation; Laser Doppler perfusion imaging (LDPI); Microcirculation imaging; Optical coherence tomography (OCT); Polarization spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; POLARIZATION; REFLECTOMETERS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TISSUE;

DIFFUSE REFLECTION IMAGING; RED BLOOD CELLS (RBC); REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; RGB CAMERA; SUB-EPIDERMAL TISSUE HAEMATOCRIT; TISSUE VIABILITY IMAGING SYSTEM (TIVI);

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 34848860322     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.740600     Document Type: Conference Paper

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