Comparison of tissue viability imaging and colorimetry: Skin blanching

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 20-23

  Zhai, Hongbo ^a   Chan, Heidi P ^a   Farahmand, Sara ^a   Nilsson, Gert E ^b,c   Maibach, Howard I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c WheelsBridge AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Skin blanching; Tissue viability imaging; Vasoconstriction

Indexed keywords

APPLIED PRESSURE; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; HUMAN SKIN; INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT; LASER DOPPLER; MINOLTA; OPERATOR DEPENDENCE; REFERENCE METHOD; RELATIVE UNCERTAINTY; SINGLE USERS; SPECTROSCOPIC INSTRUMENT; TISSUE VIABILITY; TISSUE VIABILITY IMAGING; VASOCONSTRICTION;

COLORIMETERS; COLORIMETRY; GELATION; IMAGE SENSORS; PROBES; SKIN; TISSUE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BLEACHING;

DESOXIMETASONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; ERYTHEMA; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REFERENCE VALUE; SKIN BLANCHING; SKIN DISEASE; TISSUE VIABILITY IMAGING; VASOCONSTRICTION; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; EVALUATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SKIN PIGMENTATION; STANDARD; TISSUE SURVIVAL; VASCULARIZATION;

COLORIMETRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TISSUE SURVIVAL;

EID: 63449090408     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: 16000846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0846.2008.00346.x     Document Type: Article

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