Visualizing depth and thickness of a local blood region in skin tissue using diffuse reflectance images

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Nishidate, Izumi ^a   Maeda, Takaaki ^b   Aizu, Yoshihisa ^b   Niizeki, Kyuichi ^a  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MURORAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Absorbance; Diffuse reflectance; Hemoglobin; Isosbestic wavelength; Melanin; Monte Carlo simulation; Skin tissue

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL IMAGING; REFLECTION; SCATTERING; TISSUE CULTURE; WAVELENGTH;

DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE; ISOSBESTIC WAVELENGTH;

BLOOD;

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; VASCULARIZATION;

BLOOD VESSELS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL;

EID: 38449099909     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2798703     Document Type: Article

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