Modeling and measuring extravascular hemoglobin: aging contusions

Collin Lines; Oleg Kim; Susan Duffy; Mark Alber; Gregory P. Crawford

doi:10.1117/12.896610

16 June 2011 Modeling and measuring extravascular hemoglobin: aging contusions

Collin Lines, Oleg Kim, Susan Duffy, Mark Alber, Gregory P. Crawford

Proceedings Volume 8087, Clinical and Biomedical Spectroscopy and Imaging II; 80872T (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.896610
Event: European Conferences on Biomedical Optics, 2011, Munich, Germany

Abstract

Medical expertise is frequently elicited to aid in determining the age and the cause of the trauma or injury. Child protection and law enforcement frequently rely on the physical assessment of the trauma which involves delineating intentional from unintentional types of trauma. Recent studies have shown that current methods to assess the age of traumatic injuries are highly inaccurate and do not give reasonable predictions. Hemoglobin is one of the strongest chromophores in human tissues. Transport of hemoglobin and its breakdown products in tissue determines the spectrophotometric characteristics of the skin and its variations in time. Therefore, measurements of diffuse reflective spectra of the skin allow noninvasive screening. This paper reviews potential transmission and diffusive reflection spectroscopy based techniques and predictive and quantitative modeling methods assisting in efficient retrieval of the age of extravascular contusions. This paper then presents a novel Monte Carlo technique for 3D photon tracking and blood transport model. In future studies, clinically obtained spectra will be used to validate the model as well as fine-tune coefficients for absorption. It is the goal of this study to develop a model that would allow a non-invasive, accurate determination of the age of a bruise.

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Collin Lines, Oleg Kim, Susan Duffy, Mark Alber, and Gregory P. Crawford "Modeling and measuring extravascular hemoglobin: aging contusions", Proc. SPIE 8087, Clinical and Biomedical Spectroscopy and Imaging II, 80872T (16 June 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.896610

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