Cutaneous bioengineering instrumentation standardization: The Tissue Viability Imager

Skin Research and Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 6-13

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

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b WheelsBridge AB   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Instrument performance; Skin bioengineering; Skin red blood cell concentration; Spectroscopy; Tissue Viability Imaging

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT LIGHT; CRITICAL PARAMETER; CRITICAL PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; EDGE EFFECT; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; FLUORESCENT LIGHT SOURCES; HUMAN FOREARMS; IMAGE NORMALIZATION; IMAGE SIZES; IMAGE UNIFORMITY; IMAGERS; INSTRUMENT PERFORMANCE; INTERLABORATORY COMPARISON; LONG TERM STABILITY; OBJECT DISTANCE; PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; PRODUCTION BATCHES; RED BLOOD CELL; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TISSUE VIABILITY; TISSUE VIABILITY IMAGING; TWO DIMENSIONAL MAPPING; TWO-POINT METHOD;

BLOOD; CELL MEMBRANES; HEMOGLOBIN OXYGEN SATURATION; IMAGE SENSORS; LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; SKIN;

TISSUE;

ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DERMATOLOGY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION; TISSUE VIABILITY IMAGING; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; CYTOLOGY; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; EQUIPMENT; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; EVALUATION; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SPECTROSCOPY; STANDARD; SWEDEN; TISSUE SURVIVAL;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DERMOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SWEDEN; TISSUE SURVIVAL;

EID: 63449140961     PISSN: 0909752X     EISSN: 16000846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0846.2008.00330.x     Document Type: Article

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