Multispectral transillumination imaging of skin lesions for oxygenated and deoxygenated hemoglobin measurement

2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 6637-6640

  D'Alessandro, Brian ^a   Dhawan, Atam P ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VOLUME; DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN; EARLY DETECTION; EFFECTIVE TOOL; EMPIRICAL METHOD; IMAGING OF SKIN-LESIONS; INDENTIFYING; MULTI-SPECTRAL; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES; NEAR-IR; NEVOSCOPE; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN SATURATION LEVELS; RATIOMETRIC; SKIN LESION; SKIN PHANTOM; SKIN TISSUE; SPECTRAL ABSORPTIONS; SUB-SURFACES; VASCULAR ARCHITECTURE; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

BLOOD; CHROMOPHORES; DERMATOLOGY; ESTIMATION; HEMOGLOBIN; OXYGEN;

MICROCIRCULATION;

DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; MELANOMA; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; SKIN;

ALGORITHMS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MELANOMA; OXYHEMOGLOBINS; SKIN; TRANSILLUMINATION;

EID: 78650845894     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627145     Document Type: Conference Paper

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