Lin, W.C. orcid.org/0000-0002-1261-3125, Byers, R.A. orcid.org/0000-0001-8582-9325, Li, W. et al. (3 more authors) (2021) Imaging striae distensae : a comparison between PS-OCT and digital dermoscopy. Biomedical Optics Express, 12 (6). pp. 3296-3311.
Abstract
Stretch marks or striae distensae (SD) cause emotional distress and negatively affect the psychological well-being of patients. We investigate and compare two methods for quantifying the severity of SD: visual scoring of images captured using a clinical visible-light dermatological camera (C-Cube, Pixience Inc) and measuring the local birefringence of skin using polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT). Data on skin visually affected by SD and visually normal skin were collected from 19 human volunteers. Our results show a weak correlation between visual scores of the C-Cube images and the birefringence values obtained from the PS-OCT system. SD datasets have a significantly larger birefringence values compared to visually normal datasets.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 OSA Publishing. Published by The Optical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. | ||||||
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield | ||||||
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering (Sheffield) The University of Sheffield > Sheffield Teaching Hospitals |
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Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 13 Aug 2021 13:40 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 16 Aug 2021 15:33 | ||||||
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Publisher: | Optical Society of America Publishing | ||||||
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Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1364/boe.417084 | ||||||
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