Imaging of skin microvessels with optical coherence tomography: Potential uses in port wine stains

Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1017-1021

  Zhou, Yang ^a   Yin, Daiqiang ^b   Xue, Ping ^c   Huang, Naiyan ^a   Qiu, Haixia ^a   Wang, Ying ^a   Zeng, Jing ^a   Ding, Zhihua ^d   Gu, Ying ^a  

^a CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Optical coherence tomography; Photodynamic therapy; Port wine stain; Spectrophotometer

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CHILD; COCHLEA BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EAR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERFEROMETER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEVUS FLAMMEUS; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RABBIT; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 84867271767     PISSN: 17920981     EISSN: 17921015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/etm.2012.711     Document Type: Article

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