Assessment of diabetic foot ulcers with diffuse near infrared methodology

Author

Papazoglou, Elisabeth S. ; Weingarten, Michael S. ; Zubkov, Leonid ; Neidrauer, Michael ; Pourrezaei, Kambiz

Author_Institution

Sch. of Biomed. Eng. & Sci., Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA

fYear

2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

A pilot human study was conducted in order to demonstrate the efficacy of diffuse near infrared (NIR) methodology for in vivo assessment of diabetic foot ulcers. Nine patients were evaluated using diffuse NIR methodology to assess their wound healing process over time. Absorption and scattering coefficients of the wound site were determined over time and compared to those of a control site. The results validate the model wound healing developed during our animal studies of wound healing with NIR, and indicate that differences in optical properties can be seen between wounds with different healing behaviors.

Keywords

biomedical imaging; diseases; infrared spectra; absorption coefficient; diabetic foot ulcers; diffuse near infrared methodology; scattering coefficient; wound healing process; Biomedical measurements; Blood; Diabetes; Electromagnetic wave absorption; Foot; Light scattering; Optical scattering; Volume measurement; Wavelength measurement; Wounds;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

BioInformatics and BioEngineering, 2008. BIBE 2008. 8th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2844-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2845-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BIBE.2008.4696754

Filename

4696754