Skin imaging: Is it clinically useful?

Clinical and Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 453-459

  Rallan, D ^a   Harland, C C ^a  

^a ST HELIER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; DIFFUSE REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ECHOGRAPHY; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HUMAN; IMAGING; IMAGING SYSTEM; MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; MICROSCOPE; MOLE SCANNER; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFILOMETRY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REFLECTOMETRY; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SKIN; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY; TERAHERTZ PULSE IMAGING; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY; VIDEOMICROSCOPE; VIDEORECORDING;

DERMOSCOPY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; SKIN DISEASES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 4644328106     PISSN: 03076938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.2004.01602.x     Document Type: Review

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