Collagen bundle morphometry in skin and scar tissue: A novel distance mapping method provides superior measurements compared to Fourier analysis

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 245, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 82-89

  Verhaegen, Pauline D H M ^a,b,c   van Marle, Jan ^c   Kuehne, Andreas ^d,e   Schouten, Hennie J ^b   Gaffney, Eamonn A ^d   Maini, Philip K ^d,f   Middelkoop, Esther ^a,b,g   van Zuijlen, Paul P M ^a,b,c,g  

^a ASSOCIATION OF DUTCH BURN CENTRES   (Netherlands)

^b RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bundle spacing; Bundle thickness; Collagen; Fibrosis; Morphometry; Scar; Skin

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; COLLAGEN; CONFORMAL MAPPING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

BUNDLE SPACING; BUNDLE THICKNESS; FIBROSE; FIRST ORDER; FOURIER; INTEROBSERVER RELIABILITY; INTRACLASS CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; MORPHOMETRY; SCAR; SKIN TISSUE;

FOURIER ANALYSIS;

COLLAGEN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; DISTANCE MAPPING; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MORPHOMETRICS; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SCAR; SKIN BIOPSY; VALIDITY;

EID: 83055181157     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2011.03547.x     Document Type: Article

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