Assessment of human burn scars with optical coherence tomography by imaging the attenuation coefficient of tissue after vascular masking

Journal of Biomedical Optics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Gong, Peijun ^a   McLaughlin, Robert A ^a   Liew, Yih Miin ^b   Munro, Peter R T ^a   Wood, Fiona M ^a,c   Sampson, David D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^c ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

attenuation coefficient; burn scars; collagen; hypertrophic scars; optical coherence tomography; parametric imaging; scar assessment; vasculature

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; BURN SCAR; HYPERTROPHIC SCAR; PARAMETRIC IMAGING; SCAR ASSESSMENT; VASCULATURE;

COLLAGEN; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

TISSUE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BURN; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; SCAR; SKIN; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BURNS; CICATRIX; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84888154653     PISSN: 10833668     EISSN: 15602281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JBO.19.2.021111     Document Type: Article

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