Noninvasive assessment of burn wound severity using optical technology: a review of current and future modalities.
Submitted by BLI_Admin on Thu, 07/28/2011 - 12:44
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Journal ArticleSource:
Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries, Volume 37, Issue 3, p.377-86 (2011)Keywords:
Burns, Capillaries, Diagnostic Imaging, Humans, Injury Severity Score, Microcirculation, SkinAbstract:
Clinical examination alone is not always sufficient to determine which burn wounds will heal spontaneously and which will require surgical intervention for optimal outcome. We present a review of optical modalities currently in clinical use and under development to assist burn surgeons in assessing burn wound severity, including conventional histology/light microscopy, laser Doppler imaging, indocyanine green videoangiography, near-infrared spectroscopy and spectral imaging, in vivo capillary microscopy, orthogonal polarization spectral imaging, reflectance-mode confocal microscopy, laser speckle imaging, spatial frequency domain imaging, photoacoustic microscopy, and polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography.
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