Laser doppler imaging of cutaneous blood flow through transparent face masks: A necessary preamble to computer-controlled rapid prototyping fabrication with submillimeter precision

Journal of Burn Care and Research

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 42-48

  Allely, Rebekah R ^a   Van Buendia, Lan B ^a   Jeng, James C ^a   White, Patricia ^b   Wu, Jingshu ^b   Niszczak, Jonathan ^c,d   Jordan, Marion H ^a  

^a WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDSTAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Biomed Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICONE;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE MASK; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPEREMIA; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LINEAR SYSTEM; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFUSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCAR; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; STUDENT T TEST; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND SCANNER; VALIDITY;

ADULT; BURNS; CICATRIX; FACE; FACIAL INJURIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MASKS; MIDDLE AGED; PERFUSION; PRESSURE; SILICONES; SKIN;

EID: 38049051827     PISSN: 1559047X     EISSN: 15590488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BCR.0b013e31815f6eeb     Document Type: Article

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