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Noninvasive assessment of burn wound severity using optical technology: a review of current and future modalities.

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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, and in vivo capillary microscopy are presented.
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This article is published in Burns.The article was published on 2011-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 143 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Laser Speckle Imaging & Laser Doppler Imaging.

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Challenges in the Treatment of Chronic Wounds.

TL;DR: The pathophysiology of complex chronic wounds and the means and modalities currently available to achieve healing in such patients are discussed, with a focus on diabetic foot ulcers.
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A review of indocyanine green fluorescent imaging in surgery

TL;DR: An overview of the recent surgical intraoperational applications of indocyanine green fluorescence imaging methods, the basics of the technology, and instrumentation used is given.
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Burn wound healing and treatment: review and advancements

TL;DR: Recent advancements in the care of burn patients with a focus on the pathophysiology and treatment of burn wounds are reviewed, including improvements in patient stabilization and care.
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THz Medical Imaging: in vivo Hydration Sensing

TL;DR: Two promising medical applications of THz imaging are presented: skin burns and cornea and experimental data measuring the hydration of ex vivo porcine cornea under drying is presented demonstrating utility in ophthalmologic applications.
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Functional photoacoustic microscopy for high-resolution and noninvasive in vivo imaging

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In vivo evaluation of microcirculation by coherent light scattering.

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Laser speckle contrast imaging in biomedical optics

TL;DR: The underlying physics of speckle contrast imaging is reviewed, recent developments to improve the quantitative accuracy of blood flow measures are discussed and applications in neuroscience, dermatology and ophthalmology are reviewed.
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Orthogonal polarization spectral imaging: a new method for study of the microcirculation.

TL;DR: Orthogonal polarization spectral (OPS) imaging is reported here on, a new method for imaging the microcirculation using reflected light that allows imaging of the micro Circulation noninvasively through mucus membranes and on the surface of solid organs.
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In vivo confocal scanning laser microscopy of human skin II: advances in instrumentation and comparison with histology.

TL;DR: A small, portable, and robust confocal microscope that is capable of imaging normal and abnormal skin morphology and dynamic processes in vivo, in both laboratory and clinical settings is built.
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The authors 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.