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- Title
Pulsed Photothermal Radiometric Depth Profiling of Bruises by 532 nm and 1064 nm Lasers.
- Authors
Marin, Ana; Hren, Rok; Milanič, Matija
- Abstract
Optical techniques are often inadequate in estimating bruise age since they are not sensitive to the depth of chromophores at the location of the bruise. To address this shortcoming, we used pulsed photothermal radiometry (PPTR) for depth profiling of bruises with two wavelengths, 532 nm (KTP laser) and 1064 nm (Nd:YAG laser). Six volunteers with eight bruises of exactly known and documented times of injury were enrolled in the study. A homogeneous part of the bruise was irradiated first with a 5 ms pulse at 532 nm and then with a 5 ms pulse at 1064 nm. The resulting transient surface temperature change was collected with a fast IR camera. The initial temperature–depth profiles were reconstructed by solving the ill-posed inverse problem using a custom reconstruction algorithm. The PPTR signals and reconstructed initial temperature profiles showed that the 532 nm wavelength probed the shallow skin layers revealing moderate changes during bruise development, while the 1064 nm wavelength provided additional information for severe bruises, in which swelling was present. Our two-wavelength approach has the potential for an improved estimation of the bruise age, especially if combined with modeling of bruise dynamics.
- Subjects
DEPTH profiling; ND-YAG lasers; LASERS; SURFACE temperature; INVERSE problems; ELECTRICAL impedance tomography
- Publication
Sensors (14248220), 2023, Vol 23, Issue 4, p2196
- ISSN
1424-8220
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/s23042196