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Back Cover: Spectral diffuse reflectance and autofluorescence imaging can perform early prediction of blood vessel occlusion in skin flaps (J. Biophotonics 12/2017)
First published: 05 December 2017
Graphical Abstract
Spectral diffuse reflectance and autofluorescence imaging data and reconstructed spectra were used to statistically differentiate control flaps, arterially occluded flaps and venously occluded flaps on a rat skin flap model. Our preliminary results suggest that the proposed spectroscopic imaging technique can achieve high classification accuracy thus could detect and differentiate flaps with venous and arterial occlusion accurately at an early time point in a large skin flap. Further details can be found in the article by Shuo Chen et al. on pp. 1665–1675.
