Quantitative Assessment of Burn Injury in Porcine Skin with High-Frequency Ultrasonic Imaging

Brink, James A.; Sheets, Paul W.; Dines, K.A.; Etchison, Michelle R.; Hanke, C. William; Sadove, A. Michael

doi:10.1097/00004424-198608000-00008

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“…Ultrasound scanning in B-mode, to give a skin cross-sectional image, was first used to assess burns by Kalus [69]. Wachtel [70] did not find the technique useful with a similar success rate to clinical assessment but in a series of experimental burns Brink et al [71] found good correlation with histologic sections. While traditional ultrasound requires dermal contact, noncontact ultrasound functions via a probe that is held 1 inch away from the skin [72].…”

Section: Ultrasoundmentioning

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Assessment of burn depth and burn wound healing potential

Monstrey

Hoeksema

Verbelen

et al. 2008

Burns

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Section: Ultrasoundmentioning

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Assessment of burn depth and burn wound healing potential

Monstrey

Hoeksema

Verbelen

et al. 2008

Burns

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“…60 The clinical utility of these techniques, however, was marginal, and neither technique was demonstrated to improve accuracy of clinical assessment alone, despite good correlation with histological sectioning. 61,62 More recently, high-frequency ultrasonography is available as a means to assess dermal depth as well as burn wound healing. 63 Although ultrasound requires skin contact, the improved resolution provided by high-frequency ultrasonography may demonstrate a worthwhile trade off, should the additional resolution improve burn diagnostics.…”

Section: Ultrasoundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Imaging Techniques for Clinical Burn Assessment with a Focus on Multispectral Imaging

Thatcher

Squiers

Kanick

et al. 2016

Advances in Wound Care

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“…Exploration of ultrasound for burn examination got initiated back in 1977, where the pulse-echo mode was exploited to correlate the depth of burn to the time differences of the echoes measured from a burnt tissue with that of the known time intervals for a healthy skin. 15 The elastic wave-based imaging technique gathered reliable significance when Brink 17 reported its comparative proficiency with histological sectioning. The pulse-echo system takes advantage of the variable speed of the elastic wave traversing through different tissue layers with varying density to resolve their physiological specifics.…”

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THz Imaging of Skin Burn: Seeing the Unseen—An Overview

Dutta

Bhalla

Guo

2016

Advances in Wound Care

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Significance: This review article puts together all the studies performed so far in realizing terahertz (THz) spectra as a probing mechanism for burn evaluation, summarizing their experimental conditions, observations, outcomes, merits, and demerits, along with a comparative discussion of other currently used technologies to present the state of art in a condensed manner. The key features of this noncontact investigation technique like its precise burn depth analysis and the approaches it follows to convert the probed data into a quantitative measure have also been discussed in this article. Recent Advances: The current research developments in THz regime observed in device design technologies (like THz time domain spectrometer, quantum cascade THz lasers, THz single-photon detectors, etc.) and in understanding its unique properties (like nonionizing nature, penetrability through dry dielectrics, etc.) have motivated the research world to realize THz window as a potential candidate for burn detection. Critical Issues: Application of appropriate medical measure for burn injury is primarily subjective to proper estimation of burn depth. Tool modality distinguishing between partial and full-thickness burn contributing toward correct medical care is indeed awaited. Future Directions: The overview of THz imaging as a burn assessment tool as provided in this article will certainly help in further nurturing of this emerging diagnostic technique particularly in improving its detection and accompanied image processing methods so that the minute nuances captured by the THz beam can be correlated with the physiological-anatomical changes in skin structures, caused by burn, for better sensitivity, resolution, and quantitative analysis. SCOPE AND SIGNIFICANCEIn this review article we have started by introducing a critical overview of the current technologies used for burn assessment and subsequently have discussed the prospect of terahertz (THz) frequency regime to be leveraged as a future alternative, overcoming the limitations of the current analysis techniques. First, we have discussed how THz technology evolved over time, primarily focusing on its biological applications, then moved forward with its interaction with water that determines the THz spectral window that can be used for this purpose, followed by a discussion on the features of THz imaging systems developed and finally putting together the promising results so far achieved in this domain. TRANSLATIONAL RELEVANCEAlthough histological specimen analysis always have proved to be the best assessment tool, its invasive and time-consuming nature 1 created the Moumita Dutta, BTech

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Quantitative Assessment of Burn Injury in Porcine Skin with High-Frequency Ultrasonic Imaging

Cited by 41 publications

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Assessment of burn depth and burn wound healing potential

Assessment of burn depth and burn wound healing potential

Imaging Techniques for Clinical Burn Assessment with a Focus on Multispectral Imaging

THz Imaging of Skin Burn: Seeing the Unseen—An Overview

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